Quote Originally Posted by Ironside
Well you are cutting of thier food supplies... So simply wait and take your time to check for any secret exits. Offer to deploy troops inside to prevent looting, but make it known that they'll withdraw if attacked... And withdraw them if it happens.

As I said, you can only be really effective if you constantly take out thier bases and stashes. Or is doing an extremly good operation (that would require insane amounts of very good intel though, and strikes agaisnt several places at once).
And if other locations are identified as similar terrorist hideouts? Rather manpower intensive, no? Plus, time is not often something that people have - we have a results driven world...

Quote Originally Posted by Ironside
Airstrikes are quite different compared to sieging an area.
Sieges nowadays are fairly different to how they used to be. Cutting off supplies and resticting movement used to require encirclement by ground troops. These days, we can bomb bridges, convoys, power stations etc. to achieve the same effect, but without putting soldiers at risk - quite an attractive option, given decreasing front-line troop numbers...