How serious are we aboiut this war.

[AztecWilliam]

If you have been following the "war" (or whatever the White House wants to call it) against the Islamic State), you will probably have noted that many military experts . . . no, I'd say probably all of them . . . are saying that what we are trying will not work. What we are trying is a very limited air campaign. The U.S. and some allies are launching a handful of air strikes instead of the hundreds that would have been carried out in the same period of time had this been an earlier war.

Is this war destined to fail? If so, why are we even participating in it? And while we are carrying out even a modest campaign, what does that campaign do to our over all preparedness?

Details here in the linked piece.

So even a relatively simple air campaign involves lots of aircraft and people. The Air Force and Navy today are routinely conducting complex air operations in multiple theaters simultaneously while cutting force structure and reducing end strength. Pretty soon they won’t be able to meet all the demands being levied on them. This administration is about to deny its successors viable military options with which to address future crises.

www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2014/10/08/the_us_air_campaign_against_isis_is_much_bigger_than_you_think_107484.html

AzWm

[aztecwin]

The Obama Administration, against all Military advice, just putters around the edges of the issue for political reasons.