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Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a thoughtful assessment of what President Donald Trump's approach to combating terrorism looks like. The bottom line: It looks a lot like President Barack Obama's. It is heavy on the use of special operations raids and American airpower, but it relies primarily on indigenous forces to provide the bulk of the ground forces.
Sooner or later, and probably within the next few months, the United States and its coalition partners will defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militarily, by collapsing its control of key areas in Iraq and Syria.
