Attack from three sides and then bomb the crap out of them when they escape to the fourth.
What these Obama brown- noser Gens and Adms do not comprehend is that our US SPECOPS types have spent 13 long years drinking tea with the Muslims and they know they have been fighting each other for a thousand years.
I endorse your plan. Obviously we can’t rely on Iraqi, Turk, or “good Syrian rebel” troops to block ISIS on any sides. Competent forces = US ground troops.
Gen Dempsey’s goal: “re-take Mosul”. This solves nothing and merely relocates the ISIS plague, so we can fight them again after they rape and murder elsewhere.
Correct goal: Destroy the enemy, period. Dead enemy does not threaten Mosul or elsewhere. If ISIS collects a new jihadi army, destroy it.