US fighter pilots in Afghanistan are preparing for more air attacks after President Donald Trump announced his new war strategy last week, Reuters reported.
In his speech, Trump said the US will increase the air campaign against Taliban insurgents.
Trump reiterated that the US would ultimately win the war.
Reuters reported that few details have emerged, but pilots at Bagram airbase outside Kabul are preparing for the possibility they'll be taking the fight to the Taliban in a way they haven't since the US-led combat mission in Afghanistan was called off at the end of 2014.
Among their targets since then have been Daesh.
"Between the two groups, the Taliban are definitely smarter," F-16 pilot Maj. Daniel Lindsey told Reuters. "The Taliban are much harder to kill."
"The Taliban is often embedded in the community, but nobody likes the Islamic State (Daesh), so they are often separate," Lindsey said.
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