Russia-U.S. Standoff over Syria: Why a Peaceful Deal with Assad Is the Only Way out

... event of the operation the two will engage in conflict as well and their primary target would be Israel. The potential U.S. intervention will be free of any serious tactical aviation, and Joint Direct Attack Munition will not be used. The operation will ... ... high weapons costs but no human losses for the Pentagon. So it is largely believed that in order to make the operation against Syria effective the U.S. would need to spend a lot of money of cruise missiles. Just as the 1998 campaign in Iraq didn't ...