June 7, 2015

If we're not going to put boots on the ground, how about a serious air campaign?

(Paul Mirengoff) The conventional wisdom among hawkish conservatives is that ISIS cannot be defeated by U.S. air power unless we also put "boots on the ground." This may well be true. But it's also true that the U.S. air campaign against ISIS has not been serious. David Deptula, a retired air force general, provides the evidence: In the campaign against the Islamic State, we are averaging 12 strike sorties per day. During

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