There are gonna have to be troops there to guard the 'temporary' bases from which the USAF (e.g., that pair of F-15s up above there) will extend USer "influence" throughout the Central Asia, confronting Russian, Chinese and Indian efforts to exert THEIR "influence." Our antagonists in the region already have the advantage of proximity. But, from bases around (Kurdish) Kirkuk, every population, transportation, and energy center between Peshawar and Istanbul is under the bomb-sights of USer TACTICAL--not just strategic--aircraft...
That's the gorilla in the room, the unspoken, unacknowledged reason for the ICORP in the first place: Tactical Air Superiority over the trans-Caspian energy fields. Without it, no formal military/political force can suppress any moderately well-supplied insurgency. It's the sine qua non of territorial integrity. And it's the invaluable, invincible ally of the ground troops.
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