In truth, the ground component of an anti-IS strategy will be the most difficult and controversial. But assuming the day of defeat comes for the Islamic State, some stabilizing force will have to be on the ground to manage transition back to normalcy. It has ever been thus in warfare. It is not too soon to plan for who will play that role – the UN, the US, NATO, Iraqi forces, some multinational coalition? Answering this is the response required to the question General Petraeus famously asked once in Iraq: How does this end?
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