NATIONAL
SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM – 3
MEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY
THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OF STAFF
THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR
NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
THE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT
THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
SUBJECT: Plan to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, is not the
only threat from radical Islamic terrorism that the United States faces, but it
is among the most vicious and aggressive. It is also attempting to create
its own state, which ISIS claims as a "caliphate." But there
can be no accommodation or negotiation with it. For those reasons I am
directing my Administration to develop a comprehensive plan to defeat
ISIS.
ISIS is responsible for the violent murder of American
citizens in the Middle East, including the beheadings of James Foley, Steven
Sotloff, and Peter Abdul-Rahman Kassig, as well as the death of Kayla
Mueller. In addition, ISIS has inspired attacks in the United States,
including the December 2015 attack in San Bernardino, California, and the
June 2016 attack in Orlando, Florida. ISIS is complicit in a number of
terrorist attacks on our allies in which Americans have been wounded or killed,
such as the November 2015 attack in Paris, France, the March 2016 attack in
Brussels, Belgium, the July 2016 attack in Nice, France, and the December 2016
attack in Berlin, Germany.
ISIS has engaged in a systematic campaign of persecution
and extermination in those territories it enters or controls. If ISIS is
left in power, the threat that it poses will only grow. We know it has
attempted to develop chemical weapons capability. It continues to
radicalize our own citizens, and its attacks against our allies and partners
continue to mount. The United States must take decisive action to defeat
ISIS.
Sec. 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United
States that ISIS be defeate Read Entire
(d) The Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register
DONALD J. TRUMP