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Part of the fight for isis where the french, russians and u.s. are ramping up their air campaigns against strongholds in syria. oil refineries and trucks used to transport crude oil are clear targets signaling an apparent change in u.s. strategy which a year ago focused on wells and pipelines that could be easily fixed by militants. joining me to discuss, retired army colonel jack jacobs, medal of honor recy yent and msnbc military analyst. jack, we know the level of sophistication that our air strikes have, but how do you make that assessment the? what is effective against isis as opposed to ...

Inside syria by some of your best special operators. i think that would be a tough sell had god forbid this gone wrong. so i think there may be more information to emerge in the days and hours ahead and it may also perhaps show us quite how complex it is to penetrate isis' key leadership. because we know some public figures, they put themselves in social media videos they put themselves on display quite willingly. but there's individuals like kadoulhi. just been named a $7 million reward for his whereabouts, otherwise known as al affri. thought to be the number two of isis. not a figure who yo...

Fortified places that isis has. it's a huge oil field infrastructure. heavily fortified. said toe a three- to five-kilometer perimeter around it into which people can't go. airstrikes softened up the border and then in went special forces he they must have been aware of how dangerous and complex that particular operation was. there's lots of particular reasons they may have chosen to do it that weren't to do with finding abu sayaff there. and you have to question whether or not the capture mission was really viable. isis at the core of their creed seem to worship self-extinguishing instead of ...

Morning. >> let's bring in pentagon correspondent barbara starr, senior international correspondent nick paton walsh and national correspondent sunlen serfaty and cnn military analysts retired lieutenant general mark hertling and retired major general james spider marks. let's start with barbara starr, who broke the news this morning, tell us what we know. >> good morning, well it was a -- commando raid overnight, deep into syrian isis-held territory. u.s. army special operations forces and that means delta force, went in by helicopter under orders to try to capture this man. but apparently a ...

Marched on palmyra in syria. these are three major operations isis has mounted concurrently all of which suggests that the strategy is not succeeding like gangbusters, so this could be very well designed to say, hey, look we can still you know kick butt and take names, it's not the first time special operations forces have gone into syria and i don't just mean the abortive or unsuccessful unfortunately rescue attempt for james foley last year in 2008 jsox, joint special operations command launched an operation to kill abu gadiya a border amirror a runner of the so-called rat lines of jihadis c...