mr. cordesman, i would like to start with jordan where there has been significant action. first the execution of two members of isis, and of course king abdullah saying that he will continue to use his military until, quote, they run out of fuel and bullet its. please tell me what is jordan's capacity in this manner to fight isis? >> it's very effective air force. it flies the if h 16, it has modern air surface ordnance to carry out precision strikes. it has the capability to get targeting information from u.s. intelligence capabilities. and targeting is absolutely critical to this kind of operation. so when jordan commits a large number of aircraft, it really does mean something. >> tell me why targeting is critical. >> well, one of the problems you have at any time is when you have a dispersed nonstate actor, a force that doesn't wear uniforms, that doesn't have a lot of heavy military i equipment,-- equipment, you need advanced intelligence assets to know where they are and then you also need to know if you are going to strike at them, you're not going to strike at civi