There are operations officers, and then there are planners. You are most definitely an operations officer. No combatant command has been given the order or authority to defeat ISIS. That is a fact. Absent orders, they plan and they support what they have been given authority to do.
It has nothing to do with their paycheck. The generals are under civilian control. I am sorry your government class failed to point that out.
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Keep making excuses for them and they will continue to mark time.
You may not have noticed, but our generals claim they have been given orders to defeat ISIS and they claim they are doing so. A pin prick here...a pinprick there.
What our generals want is Assad and they don’t really care about ISIS. Also our generals are little politicians. They LOVE their friendships with the Saudis, Turks, and Gulf states.
Our general corps is a big part of the problem. You blame Obama, yet the generals enthusiastically support him and his goals. Their only complaint is that they want to attack Assad instead of ISIS. Mention ISIS, and they answer about transitioning Assad out. Nearly every general needs to go. They are all a bunch of pussies that are more like MBAs or State Dept types. They have nearly no martial skill that I can see.