i don't believe just a carrier itself. i would like to see an amphibious ready group, more helicopters and marines. >> fighter jets on the carrier could be used to strike isis targets. the u.s. has increased drone surveillance over western and northern iraq in an effort to gather more intelligence to share with iraqi forces for targeting isis on the ground. but a former u.s. commander in iraq says it will be very tough. >> it's the same reason it was so hard to target them when we had 160,000 troops there. they intermingle with the people. you know, i think some of the media has shown these truck convoys going down the roads and i think the uninitiated might say what's so hard about that. let's drop a couple bombs. >> president obama has ruled out troops on the ground but can there there be tev military strikes without putting some troops in to find out exactly where isis fighters are oping. >> i believe we ought to put