Quote from: Hispo on Today at 04:18:18 PM

To be honest. I was not remotely aware of that information. I thought ISIS started as a split faction of Al-Qaeda, which sought to further reach the objectives of their former organization by more violent means and through the occupation of territory, contrary to what Al-Qaeda did, which as basically plan and carry out attacks, ISIS wanted to become a country, a caliphate. Though, I would still do my own research in regards of all of that. Whilere there has been precedents of the United States funding and training organization which ultimately transform in factions which go against them (how happened with Al-Qaeda itself). It would be desvatasting even for them to continue to pursue that sort of tactics and proxy warfare, in my opinion.
I was not even aware there could be former ISIS members amount those who are in the IDF. If True, then it is indeed sickening...

The nature of USA is to stay far away while others fight. That is why this artificial country was created a little more than 200 years ago far away from all civilization. This also helped greatly in WW2 as most of the world was destroyed while US was untouched.

I'd say the beginning of proxy war doctrine is after the mess in Vietnam that brought USA to the brink of demise, seeing that mess US regime realized that it is incapable of fighting any war and not fall part. So the decision was to fight wars through proxies as much as possible.
- The official strategy is under what's known as Nixon Doctrine which is basically US giving everything to any third party who would fight for United States, as long as they are the ones doing the fighting and dying not Americans. The most recent example is Ukraine where "US fights Russia to the last Ukrainian" as many of their officials have already publicly stated too!
- The unofficial strategy is through militant groups which in West Asia means radicals like Al-Qaeda and ISIS as the biggest names that are globally recognized to smaller groups like the Kurdish terrorists including PKK, CPI, and others like KPIK, PRMI, ...