Josh Baker
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first heard Feb 2026
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In that response that the Trump administration had to the ambush in December, we have seen a number of strikes.
And I'm just going to pull this up here, but it seems like whenever the strikes are conducted, we'll get a notification from U.S.
Central Command.
You know, this one says that more than 100 ISIS infrastructure targets were hit.
And that has me wondering, well, what exactly is an ISIS infrastructure target, especially if there's no geographic site?
What are they referring to?
So what they're commonly referring to when they say that is basically a cave or a hole somewhere in the desert where there might be a weapons cache or there might be people in hiding.
And a lot of those targets, I'm sure, are legitimate.
But also every now and again, you know, again, when I was in Syria recently, people were joking with me about how America had blown up another cave.
What the US did in those strikes is, you know, they essentially used a mallet to try to degrade this group.
They did a very targeted strike campaign, but over a vast area.
And within that, you are hitting these sort of very small hidden sites in an attempt to degrade ISIS, as well as targeting their leadership as well.
What has been consistent is the U.S.
has gone in and tried to target anyone who is senior leadership of ISIS to continue to degrade the group.
And it's that old cliche of cut off the head and the body will die.
And by maintaining that, it has been extraordinarily hard for ISIS to get back to anywhere near where it was.
But that leads me to my central question, which is, does ISIS remain a real threat in Syria?
And if not in Syria, does it remain a real threat in some other capacity?
So if you imagine the current picture of ISIS looks something like this, it breaks down into a number of issues.
There is an insurgency that has to be contained, and that's contained largely through airstrikes and targeted killings of its leadership.
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