TLAMs in Syria. Issue 3 (16th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Strategic comments. Volume 23:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: iii
• Page End: v
• Publication Date: 2017-03-16
• Subjects: World politics -- 1989- -- Periodicals; Security, International -- Periodicals; Strategy -- Periodicals; Military policy -- Periodicals; 320.9
• DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2017.1319685
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-7888

Abstract

Abstract : The United States' Tomahawk cruise-missile strikes on the Syrian regime's Shayrat Air Base in retaliation for the regime's sarin attack are unlikely to advance peace in Syria. The regime and its main supporters, Russia and Iran, remain defiant, and the Trump administration appears inclined to frame the strikes as a relatively narrow deterrent against chemical weapons attacks and keep counter-terrorism its main priority in Syria for now.