The Power of Air Power

The NYT describes how, when the Kurdish pesh merga retook the town of Gwer, ISIS had hidden three trucks with machine guns north of the town to attack the Kurdish fighters from the rear.  But when the trucks appeared, they were blown up by U. S. air strikes.  If we hadn’t been there, the Kurds would have been ambushed and slaughtered.

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