The Secretary of Defense announced on Jan. 25 the start of a U.S.-Iraq working group charged with examining how to dismantle ISIS. CERL Executive Board member General Joseph Votel spoke with Task & Purpose about this development.

General Joseph L. Votel, U.S. Army (Ret.) is the former Commander of the U.S. Central Command. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security at the Middle East Institute and a member of the CERL Executive Board. Read his bio here.

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