Ability Quote by Jack Keane

We have a duty to fight ISIS; air operations alone will not defeat ISIS.

— Ryan Zinke

Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a…

— Alexander P. de Seversky

Let me begin by saying that we have to understand who ISIS is. ISIS is a radical Sunni group. They cannot just be defeated…

— Marco Rubio

President al-Assad and his army are the only force that actually fights ISIS.

— Vladimir Putin

We need to use overwhelming air power. We need to be arming the Kurds. We need to be fighting and killing ISIS where they…

— Ted Cruz

We need to do whatever is necessary to utterly defeat ISIS....We're not using our overwhelming air power. We're not arming the Kurds. Those need…

— Ted Cruz

Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly…

— Ted Cruz

The air strikes are important [to fight ISIS], but we need to have an air force capable of it. And because of the budget…

— Marco Rubio

In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.

— Keir Starmer

As we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit ISIL harder than ever.

— Barack Obama

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share…

— Winston Churchill

You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and…

— Sergei Lavrov