How many 'boots on the ground' would it take to defeat ISIS?

On Vice, an article about the prospect of sending U.S. ground troops to Syria interviews Michelle Benson, and Jacob Kathman, UB associate professors of political science, who said most Americans want ground troops in Syria because most Americans don’t really know what that means. “The size and type of intervention with ground troops would depend entirely upon the goals of such a mission,” Kathman said. “It is important to remember that ISIS’s geographic strongholds are largely, but not completely, associated as much with its desire to be a state/caliphate,” Benson said.

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