has already had more than 6,300 air strikes against isis in syria, and iraq. give us some perspective on that, in terms of raw numbers, and obviously we know that the preponderance of air strikes have been done by the u.s. >> well, you know, and i think the right number is 6,300 sorties, and the number of aircraft that actually could effectively deliver munitions is far lower, and in many cases we're striking targets where they have warned the people on the ground we're going after them, so again, i think some of these numbers very deceptive. in "dez are the storm" when we went after the iraqi army, the rate of sorties was immensely higher and there were restrictions on what we had. >> three weeks ago before the paris attacks, general, president obama also approved a small group of fewer than 50 special forces commandos to deploy into northern syria.