It’s probably a classified thing... but I really do wonder what percentage of all of the armed forces are deployed in other countries instead of the U.S. and its territories?
With a functioning command and control on the ground, the US could air drop one division, and have a heavy division on the seas and rolling in country pretty quickly.
Finding an ISIS decisive moment now, though, is likely to be impossible. We attacked their grouped forces from the air, so now they’ve dispersed.
Any follow on combat forces should have immediately followed the softening up offered by the air campaign. They’re supposed to work in concert. Air/artillery support and then a peshmerga unit should rush into the area and take advantage of the chaos.
That’s not happening, so the next idea is to have US troops be the follow on forces. If that doesn’t happen, then they simply aren’t serious about this battle. They’re just putting on a show leading up to the election.