"Conventional forces are needed to root out the Taliban and exploit the full power of precision weapons."
Ground troops should be employed only if air power and precision weapons cannot achieve American goals.
The terrorists and the states that support them don't have large armies or precision weapons.
Since then, American military services have increased both the number and diversity of precision weapons and attack systems.
The second reason is the more-focused damage associated with precision weapons.
The problem is that precision weapons do not carry large warheads and cannot produce spectacular damage.
In the conflict in Afghanistan, the share of precision weapons rose to about 60 percent.
This is a precision weapon, which must be utilised more.
If the Millennium targets are to be hit, there need to be precision weapons.
Then they mounted machine guns and now precision weapons.