from great britain and france and the united states so yeah i think we are on the brink of something really bad happening on a global scale unless we get this under control and i think this advance on tikrit is the first step to try to do that and what i have been saying is that we ve got to leverage all of our elements of power, our political power, our diplomatic power, to build the coalition. our economic power to shut down countries that are buying black market oil from isis such as turkey. then our military power, of course in the form of communications and signals and electronics and intelligence and being able to facilitate very accurate fighting and targeting so that the coalition can advance, and it s got to be the arab nations that are leading this much like you saw secretary baker do with the desert storm building that coalition of all those nations lined up because they knew that saddam hussein violating kuwait s sovereign
successfully destroyed or disabled dozens of oil refineries in syria controlled by isis militants. new defense department video shows some of those targets exploding and sending huge clouds of smoke into the air. the goal is to cripple the main source of revenue from sails of black market oil. martha raddatz is the only american journalist reporting from a u.s. war ship launching those air strikes. reporter: here in the middle of the persian gulf, u.s. ships and war planes are waging a 24/7 war against isis. dropping almost as many bombs in just three days as the entire first month of attacks on isis in iraq. there are over 60 aircraft on this carrier. most of strike fighters. also surveillance and reconnaissance planes and helicopters as well. the strikes targeting those critical isis controlled oil fields. once generating millions a day. now after a wave of air strikes, destroyed. the commander of this carrier strike group telling me the goal is to stop the isis money flow. anoth
new defense department video shows some of those targets exploding and sending huge clouds of smoke into the air. the goal is to cripple the main source of revenue from sails of black market oil. martha raddatz is the only american journalist reporting from a u.s. war ship launching those air strikes. reporter: here in the middle of the persian gulf, u.s. ships and war planes are waging a 24/7 war against isis. dropping almost as many bombs in just three days as the entire first month of attacks on isis in iraq. there are over 60 aircraft on this carrier. most of strike fighters. also surveillance and reconnaissance planes and helicopters as well. the strikes targeting those critical isis controlled oil fields. once generating millions a day. now after a wave of air strikes now after a wave of air strikes,