How do you know that we need to do more? Are you with the CIA or the military? Do you have information that the government is not sharing with us?
If ISIS does that then they are no longer taking additional territory, and they no longer pose a significant threat to the area. It's mighty hard to be in charge when you are hiding.
If ISIS goes into hiding, then we won't have the need to hit them. Our mission will be accomplished. At least until they morph into the next muslum extremist group, and then we will have to repeat. This is something that is going to keep happening until muslums are willing to give up on extremism, which likely isn't going to be any time soon. Iraq will not be safe from radical groups until the next iron fist evil dictator, like Saddam Husein, takes over.
20 years active duty and another 26 working for the military as a Department of the Army Civilian. Retired from active duty in 1986 and from DOD in 2012. True for the most part about taking territory. If they move into hospitals, etc with all their commo, internet capabilities, and business capabilities and can operate from a hospital, mosque or school, they are still in business and really haven’t been that much degraded. They just moved from one bombed out structure into another they figure we will not bomb.
They will also be keeping all the territory they have conquered up to this point. Once their infrastructure and backbones are more or less secured, they can use small groups to attack and infiltrate shall I say Baghdad and other cities. Move more to a guerrilla campaign instead of more or less conventional warfare, hit and run, attack and retreat, sapper attacks etc. There are tons of possibilities to continue their attacks and gain some ground here and there, only utilizing different means and ways.
You may call moving headquarters, essential personnel, the planners, generals if you will, financial experts, tacticians, strategists, the leaders and their immediate subordinates and staffs into hospitals, mosques and schools and other areas that we find hard or lack the will to hit, bomb because of our concern for civilians, kids, old men and women, the sick, etc. hiding. I don’t, I call it smart strategy.
ISIS will continue to have the capabilities they do now, only they will be operating from more or less safe havens. That is not exactly what I call mission accomplished.
To answer your other question, no I have no inside knowledge. None what so ever. I really haven’t been paying much attention to the air strikes even. Outside of hearing on the news more were conducted. So you probably know more about what is being reported than I. I just gave my opinion on the air strikes, how I would figure whether they are being successful or not.
I really do not like to listen to all the talking military heads on the news channels, they give their view according to the political slant they believe in and the station they are a host, contributor or whatever on.