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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Chuck Hagel On Sending Troops To Fight ISIS [Watch (HLS stream): Chuck Hagel On Sending Troops To Fight ISIS](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/sRW1G3Xr.m3u8) (1:15)  _Published 2015-01-31. Chuck Hagel On Sending Troops To Fight ISIS_ --- Jul 27, 2023 5:51 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [The U.S. Is Sending 200 More Troops to Syria to Battle ISIS](/video/6HtSVuKW/) ### The U.S. Is Sending 200 More Troops to Syria to Battle ISIS [Hagel Orders 21 Day Ebola Quarantine for Returning U.S. Troops](/video/RYH81xJF/) ### Hagel Orders 21 Day Ebola Quarantine for Returning U.S. Troops [Watch: Hagel on Bergdahl Swap](/video/nr21G8Br/) ### Watch: Hagel on Bergdahl Swap --- ## Transcript He said to his combatant commanders specifically Generally Dempsey and General Austin, if you believe and you want to recommend you think you need to recommend to me, to the President that we should look at other options then I want you to bring those, those recommendations to me. That so far has not, has not happened. Whether that would happen in the future, again the president has said to his commanders if you think this is what's gonna be required, I need to know it, you need to make the recommendation and I'll listen. What do you think? Well, I think just as the president has said said and it's the advice I've given the president. It's what John Dempsey has. Is that we have to look at all the options. And I think it, it may require, a forward deployment of, of some, of our troops. Not doing the fighting. Not doing the combat work that we did at one time for six years in Iraq, and we did. For many, many years in Afghanistan, but to help airstrike precision. Locate targets. Locate. Intelligence. Those, those are things where we could continue to support. You, you've-- Now we're, I, I would say though, we're, not, we're not there yet. 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