ACTION
requests that the Defense Secretary James Mattis, submit a preliminary draft of 鈥渁 new plan to defeat ISIS鈥� within 30 days.
ANALYSIS
The plan should include recommended policy changes, potential ways to cut off ISIS鈥� funding, potential new coalition partners, and cyber strategies and public diplomacy. But the memorandum is not specific. The recommended policies included in the memo sound a lot like the previous administration鈥檚 approach, says the. But , it may include potentially deploying US forces closer to the front lines in Iraq and Syria or sending more advisers.
