Originally Posted by deptrai
he did qualify as a HueyCobra Pilot, long time ago. Before that, attended Sandhurst, commissioned into the British Army as a Second Lieutenant, and served for a year as a troop commander in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars. Later Armored Officer's Advanced Course at Fort Knox. I think he has an idea about how to fight tanks, and fly a helicopter. Not sure how that knowledge will help in this new war. The tools they teach people in war school were usually helpful against yesterday's enemy, and may be somewhat outdated.
Because everyone has been saying that the only way to actually finish ISIL is with ground troops. As of now, those are Iraqi/Kurd/Iranian volunteers/other anti-Assad Syrian rebels - but now we may well see Jordan use some of the ~400 Challenger 1 (Al-Hussein) and ~180 upgraded M-60A3 (Phoenix) tanks currently in its active forces (or even perhaps some of the 274 upgraded Chieftain (Al-Khalid) tanks currently in storage).
Also the >1,300 M113s, and so on. Not to mention the 25 AH-1 Cobras (and I'm sure the US would love to sell some of the hundreds of retired US Army Cobras if Jordan asks for them.
Note that King Abdullah knows very well how those should be employed - and this fight is actually a very old one, in terms of how ISIL fights - with tactics that are very familiar to every Arab.