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'Boots on the ground' needed to combat IS
Colonel Richard Kemp, one-time commander of British forces in Afghanistan, gives his take on the terrorist threat.
He thinks mere airstrikes against IS will not be sufficient to beat the terrorist group, no matter where those strikes are targeted.
NATO, he says, must accept that 'boots on the ground' will be necessary if IS are to be degraded and destroyed.
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