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Steve Warren, (born January 22, 1978) is a former defensive tackle who played for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (2000–02).

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We knew that the fighting would get harder the further north we went and we are seeing that to be the case.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

We believe the foreign fighter flow was 2,000 at one point and is now down to a quarter or less of that.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

The key is the cumulative effect over time of the damage we have done to them on the battlefield combined with reduced (foreign fighter) flow, so they have to increasingly use younger fighters, conscripts, and security/governance personnel to field their force.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

By definition, ‘ we ’ll figure it out if we ever capture anyone ’ is not a comprehensive policy.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

We are continuing to improve our fighting position, so to speak, to ensure that we've got the best ability to protect ourselves.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

I'm not going to tell you you're wrong, but I'm also not going to telegraph our punches.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

There's been a decision made not to release that number.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

We're in a dangerous place, and there's a war going on. So, we have to expect that there will be attacks.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

They're there to provide force protection.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

This is the first time we've established a spot that's only American.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago World

We've seen some of the leaders move their families, we believe, into Tal Afar as we've placed increased pressure on Mosul.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

You know, moving from the north, from the south, then moving really from the east, we're beginning to build the box around that enemy stronghold. And eventually, we'll begin to dismantle it.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

This is not a catch-and-release program, if we have to go back and talk to them, we’ll go back and talk to them.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

As we take people off the battlefield we’re just going to have to make the decisions as we go.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

If we have to go back and talk to them, we’ll go back and talk to them.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

(It) may not knock you out today but over time begins to weaken your knees and cause you to not be able to function the way you'd like to.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

There were no Coalition airstrikes in or near Aleppo on Wednesday, February 10. Any claim that the coalition had aircraft in the area is a fabrication.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

The Iraqis have put those to good use, we look forward to this additional capability along with the additional trained pilots.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Company News

It was Iraqi for sure.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

In addition to chipping away at their so-called caliphate, killing their leaders, we're also hitting them in the pocketbook.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Energy

We assess this operation has reduced their revenue by about 30 percent.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Energy

The fight for Fallujah is ongoing. Right now the Iraqi Security Forces are approaching Fallujah from three directions, essentially, they encircle the city, almost like a boa constrictor, and they will then squeeze in closer and closer into that city until eventually they are able to finally clear it, as we saw in Ramadi.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Essentially, they encircle the city, almost like a boa constrictor, and they will then squeeze in closer and closer into that city until eventually they are able to finally clear it, as we saw in Ramadi.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

There were no Shia militias involved in this operation for Ramadi.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

We will continue to hunt ISIL leaders who are working to recruit, plan and inspire attacks against the United States of America and our allies.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

They encircle the city almost like a boa constrictor.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

Now that he's dead, ISIL has lost a key link between their networks.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Latest Headlines

Isil tries to build a variety of improvised or homemade weapons but their effectiveness is limited against our technology.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

They are trying to adjust. It won’t work.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

It was a dynamic strike. It was a troops-in-contact situation.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

He was one of the most senior and experienced members of ISIL's financial network, and he was a legacy al Qaeda member.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Killing him and his predecessors exhausts the knowledge and talent needed to coordinate funding within the organization.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

We'd like to see them move as rapidly as possible, we believe now is the time for the final push into Ramadi.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

Our strikes were approximately 55 kilometers (35 miles) southeast of Ayyash. We did not strike any vehicles or personnel targets. We have no indication any Syrian soldiers were near our strikes.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

There are plenty of rat lines and back roads and smuggling routes, but... there's much less civilian traffic on those routes so they're easier for us to monitor and strike and they're more difficult for Daesh to use.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

This is sloppy military work, this is the reckless and irresponsible, imprecise and frankly uncaring approach to operations in Syria that the Russians have taken on.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

It's still a little early, but we are reasonably certain that we killed the target that we intended to kill, which is Jihadi John.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

He was a recruitment tool for the organization.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Industrials

We are reasonably certain that we killed Jihadi John.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Industrials

They've done hundreds of airstrikes at this point. I'm not putting out the count anymore, but they conduct airstrikes, but only a fraction of them have been against (ISIS) targets, and when I say fraction, I'm talking ... 10%.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

We have seen that. We believe that the success is 200-plus kilometers of ground that the Syrian Arab Coalition has managed to take, to some extent, validates this program, it's not a complete validation - I want to be clear about that. But we're encouraged by what we see and ... we intend to reinforce success.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

While this is not a large tactical action, we believe the operation demonstrates the viability of our program to provide support to these forces.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

We knew this because we saw freshly dug graves.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

We've seen instances where ... one of our UAVs will sort of come nearby and the Russian will break his pattern and come over and take a close look at the drone, or the UAV.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Industrials

I find these air strikes to be reckless and indiscriminate.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Industrials

We are beginning to isolate Ramadi from multiple directions.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

As of now, none have completed training, we are certainly below our expectation on throughput.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

There are challenges, this is a very difficult operation to undertake. We have to identify Syrians who want to enter this program, we have to vet them, which is a difficult process.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

The training will take as long as it takes based on the skill level that we see out of the trainees, we're going to ... continue the training until we get to a point where we believe that they're ready to rejoin the battlefield.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

There's another difficulty, which is exfiltrating these individuals out of Syria. ... Syria is a very complex, very dangerous place, multiple armed sides battling each other. So the exfiltration process is also a significant challenge.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

In Baiji (town), the progress is more notable, friendly forces have begun moving into the town ... and are methodically beginning to root out the enemy.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

This was a methodical and often times grinding movement from the south to the north, it took the friendly forces several weeks to be able to break through.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

Our air power we believe has been effective, you've seen strikes in and around the Baiji oil refinery and Baiji virtually every day.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

We don't know exactly who is firing those weapons.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

The DOD lab was working as part of a DOD effort to develop a field-based test to identify biological threats in the environment, out of an abundance of caution, DOD has stopped the shipment of this material from its labs pending completion of the investigation.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

No personnel have shown any signs of possible exposure. The sample was destroyed in accordance with appropriate protocols.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I think ‘cut and run’ is kind of a mischaracterization, in this case it appears that ISIL forces simply had the upper hand.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

The UH-1 had launched to deliver tarps and rice, because of the terrain (it) had not been in contact for approximately two hours. No emergency beacon has been detected at this time.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

Essentially what we have right now is truly a missing helicopter. We simply don't know its location.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

They've asked if we would accompany their flagged vessels through the strait.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

It has certainly created a situation where maritime cargo vessels presumably would have to consider the risks of traversing the strait.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

At first appearance it does seem to be provocative behavior, but again we don't have all the facts yet.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Energy

I think it's fair to say that this appears to be a de-escalation some of the tensions that were being discussed earlier in the week.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Energy

What I can tell you is that ships can change directions at anytime so I don't want to characterize exactly what they are doing.

– Steve Warren

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Many have asked me whether or not they (the U.S. warships) are there because of the Iranian ship convoy or flotilla that is also in the area, that is certainly one of the factors. That is not the reason they are there.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

It's difficult to predict the future so what we need to have are options, we have to preserve and to create options for ourselves should the deteriorating security situation get to a point that ... maritime security is threatened.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

I'm not going to telegraph anything.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

We do not normally telegraph future operations, so I will not comment on that. He also mentioned that we were providing ISR over Tikrit. I am prepared to confirm that.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

The addition of this battalion is part of an Army-wide reorganization that will raise the number of MLRS (multiple-launch rocket system) battalions in all field artillery brigades from two to three.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

We’re not prepared to say it has been cleared.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 4 years ago U.S.

The removal of this senior Lord's Resistance Army leader from the battlefield is an example of the impact the AURTF has had in the fight to end the scourge of the LRA.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

We are certainly looking at our systems and will refine them as needed.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

In order for us to do that we would have to release to you the exact number of tanks we believe the enemy has, the exact number of Humvees we believe the enemy has, we don't want our enemy to know how much we know about them.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

We’re confident the Air Force will do everything it needs to do to fulfill its Title 10 requirements.

– Steve Warren

Found on FOX News 4 years ago U.S.

We don't expect either of those to be up and running for several more weeks.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

The fire has been completely ineffective ... The Iraqi security forces there have done a very good job of creating a security zone. American forces ... have sustained absolutely no injuries, wounds or even a close attack.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

The department has long been aware and mindful of the potential for homegrown extremism and we have continued to encourage and to advise all of our personnel to exercise the maximum amount of vigilance.

– Steve Warren

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles