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Air Force Pilots Say They're Flying Blind Against ISIS -- Dave Majumdar, Daily Beast
Obama's no-boots-on-the-ground pledge is keeping America from fighting an effective air campaign in Iraq and Syria.
Within the U.S. Air Force, there's mounting frustration that the air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq is moving far more slowly than expected. Instead of a fast-moving operation with hundreds of sorties flown in a single day—the kind favored by many in the air service—American warplanes are hitting small numbers of targets after a painstaking and cumbersome process.
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The single biggest problem, current and former Air Force officers say, is the so-called kill-chain of properly identifying and making sure the right target is being attacked. At the moment, that process is very complicated and painfully slow.
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"The kill-chain is very convoluted," one combat-experienced Air Force A-10 Warthog pilot told The Daily Beast. "Nobody really has the control in the tactical environment."
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