Paul Eaton Quoted by Breaking Defense on Training the Syrian Opposition

Proxy War Protocols: How to Make Syrian Opposition Work

By James Kitfield

November 11, 2014 | Breaking Defense

“I think the best model is what our Special Operations Forces and CIA paramilitary accomplished when they married U.S. airpower to the Northern Alliance fighters in 2001, and rapidly toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan. That’s where I think we’re headed,” said retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who led the training of Iraqi Security Forces. Currently U.S. air forces only conduct a handful of strikes a day against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, he notes, compared to more than 130 a day during the 1999 Kosovo Air War. “That may suggest inadequate ‘target generation’ on our part, which sooner or later will lead to frustration and the deployment of more SOF and Air Force forward air controllers.”

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