and author of books on terrorism and the executive director of terror projects. is the current strategy such as it is working and if so to what degree? it can be said it s working in the fact that we re carrying out air strikes but the result of the air strikes don t seem to be reflecting any successes on the ground. we took this loss in ramadi recently not because the iraqis weren t fighting even though secretary of defense said there was a lack of a will to fight. they had one of their premier forces there. the iraqi special operations forces and they fight. but what they don t have is they don t have the aerial support that s coordinated with their actions. isis just flows around them like water on a rock. if we re not coordinating deeply with the iraqis it will not be successful. should u.s. forces be fighting on the ground? we re not talking necessarily large-scale ground troops but it s been suggested on this