Sec. 4. Strategy to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
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Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this joint resolution, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a comprehensive strategy to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The comprehensive strategy required by subsection
(a)shall, at a minimum, detail the following: Vital and important United States national security interests threatened by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Strategic and operational objectives. Milestones for assessing progress toward political, diplomatic, development, informational, and military goals. Risks for the strategy. Public diplomacy, information operations, and cyber strategies to isolate and delegitimize the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and its radical Islamist ideology. Actual and proposed contributions of coalition partners. Humanitarian assistance and support for displaced civilian populations. Mechanisms to cut off or seize the financial support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, including financial transfers, money laundering, oil revenue, human trafficking, sales of looted art and historical artifacts, and other sources of revenue. Plans for countering the international travel of terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Plans for the law of war detention and interrogation of combatants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Plans for sustainable governance and security in areas retaken from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. An endstate and exit strategy for any planned combat deployment of United States conventional ground forces. An estimate of the costs of carrying out the strategy. Plans to inform periodically the people of the United States about the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The plan submitted under subsection
(a)shall be submitted in classified form with an unclassified summary. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.