Today’s defence related media coverage includes news on the campaign against Daesh and the Attorney General’s speech yesterday.
Daesh
The Herald and The Scotsman report that the operation to retake Mosul from Daesh could be complete in three months or less, according to top Iraqi commander Lt. General Talib Shaghati. The General is also quoted saying that while many forces are participating in the operation, only Iraqi Special Forces able to fight Daesh as they have ‘skills to fight guerrilla warfare.
In other Daesh-related news, the Times reports that US Special Forces has killed Daesh’s finance minister Abu Anas al-Iraqi.
Read about UK operations in Iraq and Syria here.
Attorney General’s speech
The Guardian reports on yesterday’s speech on the use of force by the Attorney General, where he said that specific advance evidence of a terror plot threatening UK interests is not legally necessary before launching pre-emptive drone strikes against suspects overseas. Speaking to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Jeremy Wright QC denied the threshold for self-defence was being watered down and said that not knowing the target, type or time of a terrorist attack should not prevent military action.
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