What the CBO really likes is prepositioned ships, loaded with equipment. The drawbacks there, of course, include having the wrong equipment for the fight, not having adequate port facilities to offload the equipment, or needing to get into a land-locked country.
The U.S. sent Air Force F-16s over central Syria in a show of force following the Dec. 13 killing of two U.S. Army Soldiers and one American civilian interpreter by a gunman linked to the Islamic State group.
