AIR FORCE STRATEGY AND INHERENT RESOLVE

摘要

The 2016 American political campaign has scarcely touched on the strategy underlying the fight against the self-styled ISIS, or Daesh. Some candidates, hoping perhaps to capitalize on a perceived national impatience with the progress of Operation Inherent Resolve, have loudly called for "carpet bombing" and other indiscriminate tactics. The multinational effort to defeat Daesh isn't simply about body counts, physical destruction, or even about reclaiming territory, however. The publicly stated goal, according to the White House, is "to degrade and ultimately destroy [ISIS] through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy so that it's no longer a threat to Iraq, the region, the United States, and our partners."