aerial ars small and exposing a weakness in the administration s strategy. when you think about troops on the ground obscuring themselves so they can move around that s what we are seeing here with isis, using a sandstorm so our eyes in the sky, our predators, aircraft can t see what is going on on the ground. reporter: there are new questions about the training of iraqi security forces many who were seen scrambling out of ramadi as isis took control, that left some to remember about their will to fight, including national security adviser susan rice. it s an uneven force, quite frankly, both in terms of the will of the forces their equipment, their leadership and that s part of the challenge that we have in trying to build it back. reporter: while its power remains limited to specific areas, isis and its affiliates continues to spread geographically from iraq and syria to yemen and now into northern africa in libya. the first expansion outside of the middle east creating a sta