An air force can (as they have) contribute to the defeat of Daesh by attacking their supplies & sources of money, e.g. by attacking their oil wells & exports. All those who’ve studied it agree that Daesh’s income has dropped greatly since the bombing campaign against their oil wells began.
Attacking their oil refineries, as is being done, reduces their fuel supplies. This weakens them militarily.
So, there are ways in which aircraft can contribute to the defeat of Daesh other than bombing soldiers.
Lokk Swerwe everyone around has bombed them, Russian, Iraqi ,Syrians (although the latter two had much more restraint about it, as these are their own asset).
Same with command and logistical center well inside the ISIS and rebel control territory.
It obviously help a lot, it is just not resolutive as it would be against a well organized State .
And if you think that the most important income ISIS get by territory it control is about oil, look again.
Fact is, that both the coalition , in Iraq first and Syria well later, and Russian , in Syria,began bombing enemy infracstructure from a previously arranged list at first.
Difference it was that once the list went short, coalition mission rate plummeted down very hard while the Russian one skyrocketed in both terms of airstrikes and target hit numbers.
Now Coalition is rising again, because also them have finally found in the SDF and in a renovated Iq army someone engaging in real battles.
And no, i’m working on preempitive strike :rolleyes: there, just increasing numbers of recon drones or non embedded SF operators would have not the same effect at all.
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