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WOW. Never seen this before. Following today's briefing where the UK's deputy commander of Inherent Resolve said he did not see increased threats from Iran, U.S. Central Command just put out this statement saying that "runs counter" to what the Pentagon sees. 
To say this is unusual would be an... understatement. Not only does this undercut an allied commander in the battlefield, his comments were made on a Pentagon briefing.
I'm flabbergasted. And fascinated that we didn't get a walkback under OIR's name, but rather the U.S. on its own saying "That extremely close ally who we organized a briefing for? Yeah he's full of it."
Paul probably has the right read here
It gets more awkward: the UK Ministry of Defence has issued a statement defending Maj. Gen. Chris Ghika. So now you have a Pentagon statement going after an allied general from your closest partner, and that partner hitting back.
