The US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group must do more to target the jihadists' command centers, French army chief Denis Mercier said Wednesday, according to AFP.
He compared operations in Iraq, where French warplanes are carrying out air strikes, and Syria, where the US is bombing jihadist positions, to the 2011 international intervention in Libya.
"In Libya we went after (Libyan leader Moamer) Kadhafi's centers of gravity... it was by attacking these centers that we managed to topple Kadhafi, not by firing at 150 pick-up trucks a day. Otherwise we would still be there," Mercier told journalists.(READ MORE)
