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I don't really see an all-out ground war happening.... the public is a bit war weary by this point, and another major offensive will be politically damaging for whatever party lets slip with it. ISIS/ISIL is an amalgamation of groups, and used to operate as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, and they operated in our AO. I'm sure I'm not the only who'd like the opportunity to go back and kill a few (or more) of them off, especially if they're fighting openly now, but these decisions are ultimately made by politicians, who may or may not pay attention to what military advisers have to say. Plus the likely outcome of such a ground offensive would likely be them returning to the same style of insurgency they had used previously.
A lot of the problem stems from a very factional government in Iraq, and that did wonders to help ISIS with increasing their numbers. So long as that problem exists within the Iraqi government, so will the problem which led to the rise of ISIS.
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