French Air Force chief said U.S. air strikes against IS shouldn’t be targeting pickup trucks

Chief of staff of the French Air Force Gen. Denis Mercier has criticized the way the U.S.-led coalition carried out air strikes against ISIL in Syria and Iraq.

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“In Libya we went after (Libyan leader Moamer) Kadhafi’s centres of gravity… it was by attacking these centres that we managed to topple Kadhafi, not by firing at 150 pick-up trucks a day. Otherwise we would still be there,” Mercier told journalists.
“It is exactly the same problem in Iraq today. We are shooting at the frontline but behind that we need to concentrate on the centres of gravity.”
Of note, Mercier did credit the coalition strikes from preventing ISIL from overrunning the two nations.

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