
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Secretary of Defense Ash Carter promised the 18th Airborne Corps and its commander Lt. Gen. Steve Townsend a blank check to order resources needed for the hasty defeat of the so-called Islamic State. “Anything he needs, he will get," Carter said of Townsend, who will take over the campaign against Islamic State (ISIL) militants in Iraq and Syria for Lt. Gen Sean MacFarland.Carter said the deploying troops will take with them “the whole suite” of military…