you fight the WWII way, to win, without tying soldiers’ hands.
Russia made some very fast inroads in Syria this way.
Putin is an assassin but he knows what war is.
Jihad is not just in Syria. The mindset is pervasive over nearly 25% of the entire globe’s population and over vast areas of the globe.
Right now the main manifestations of it are in Syria (and Libya) but that will not always be the case. It is already shifting to the Sinai and Yemen and across Africa.