IS THIS ANYWAY TO FIGHT A WAR?

AFGHAN AIR WAR: MORE FIREFIGHTS, FEWER AIR STRIKES

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- Despite a dramatic increase in the tempo of fighting across Afghanistan this summer, U.S. attack jets are dropping significantly fewer bombs on enemy insurgents, according to Air Force data.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/08/23/afghan-air-war-more-firefights-fewer-airstrikes/
David Wood, columnist, Politics Daily

At the same time, U.S. aircraft are flying record numbers of combat sorties each day to try to locate insurgents, track their movements, listen in on their conversations and work with U.S. ground troops to close in on them. In many cases, when American troops engaged in firefights call for overhead fighters to attack the enemy, it now falls to the pilots to ask, in essence, "Well, isn't there another way to resolve this problem?"

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