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Be a game changer even if we got them. they have 1500 fighter planes. it has used very few of them so far. ukraine has roughly 100 at the start of the conflict. it has lost some since then. you would have to see a long and sustained air effort. not clear the ukrainians could do that logistically and it might become can we use the air bases to fly the strike? thats part of the concern. >> julie: kyiv is begging more military support. why would a three way fighter jet be different than adding pole...

Operations troops on the ground in syria can make a difference, i do not profess to be a military expert, but that sure does seem like a very small number. >> it is a small number. i would be very careful about those numbers because it doesnt talk about the special forces and groups that are outside syria. and remember that with the end of the formal training missions outside syria, you already had a significant residual cia and special forces presence in the north and you had the support of jor...

Step up isis airstrikes. give us a sense of how that air effort helps things on the ground? >> well mikaela, i will tell you right now, when you have to fight in a built-up area, a city to go in there alone as ground force to ground force to defending element and right now that would be isis they defend those cities out in anbar, they have the advantage and its a difficult slog. its a difficult fight to get if there and its deadly. when you have the air support that comes in that can literally w...

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The coalition have an obligation to do more even though -- they did some air strikes, if you start attacking them closer in in places like misrata then you run the risk of civilian casualties going dramatically up here. >> john, i think there is a route forward and i think today was a very significant day in the short history of the conflict. the u.s. struck armored advanced brigades of gadhafis forces outside misrata and very close to ajdabiya in the east, had some success in stopping gadhafis ...

Zone, theres going to be immediate pressure to make it what we call a no drive zone, which is prevent vehicles from moving. that is a lot harder, requires a lot more effort. and whats more, we need to understand that in this situation, the people doing most of the killing are infantry men. they are guys with gun, they are very hard to take out from the air, it would require an enormous air effort to do so and could get the u.s. sucked into a situation where if were trying to stop them from the a...