"I will present for your consideration our proposed coalition military campaign plan, this is a strategic document I have prepared with my commanders," Carter said. "It is a campaign plan that outlines the way forward and the resources and the capabilities we will need to hasten ISIL's lasting defeat."
Carter explained that the new campaign plan would focus on more contributions from coalition partners to the anti-Daesh campaign and on further steps to reclaim the cities of Mosul and Raqqa, as well as to prevent Daesh from spreading into other countries.
"We have accordingly in the United States done more, much more, to hasten our part in the campaign and our leadership of the campaign, and we're looking for opportunities to do yet even more. But the campaign will go even faster if all of the nations in this room do more too," Carter urged coalition members.
Carter said he and Combined Joint Task Force commander Sean MacFarland would present to coalition members an "operational overview" of where the coalition stands in the campaign and would explain what "specific requirements and capabilities" member countries would need to contribute to anti-Daesh fight.
Since 2014, the US-led coalition of more than 60 countries has been carrying out airstrikes against Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria, however, in Syria without permission from Damascus or the UN Security Council.
The Islamic State, also known by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a terrorist group outlawed in many countries around the world, including the United States and Russia. The group has seized large areas in Syria and Iraq and declared a caliphate on territories under its control.
