Ex-army boss calls for 'boots on ground' as britiain is 'not doing eno

Lord Dannatt said more must be done to tackle the jihadi force, including looking at sending in allied special forces to destabilise its powerbase. ISIS are using the Islamic holy month of

Ramadan as a call to arms for supporters to attack the West. It has already claimed responsibility for Friday's Tunisia shootings, a beheading in France and an attack on a Shia Mosque

in Kuwait. Asked if enough was being done militarily to defeat ISIS, Lord Dannatt told BBC One's Sunday Politics: "The short answer is no. We are not doing enough right across the

piste." He added: "On the military lines we have got to do much more to support those in the region who are fighting Islamist extremists on the ground. "Yes, we can support

them from the air, we should be doing more of that, but we should be doing more to support them on the ground as well. "More training teams, better equipment and really giving those who

are willing to fight the best chance of succeeding, because to succeed on the ground is the really important thing to do." British forces in the Kurdish north of Iraq have trained more

than 1,200 Peshmerga fighters in combat infantry skills as part of the global coalition against ISIS. Lord Dannatt added: "There's got to be more leadership or co-ordination to

really help those on the ground that are fighting and we must use every possible technique, including the possible use of special forces, ideally indigenous special forces, to do the things

that we need to do." The independent crossbench peer said the wider battle for "hearts and minds" must involve Muslim leaders. Asked if ISIS would conclude it was winning its

war, he replied: "Yes, I would think I was doing pretty well. "But I think the key point is we have got to win the battle for attitudes. We have got to win the battle for hearts

and minds. There's got to be a narrative coming out of mainstream mosques in Europe." This is not the first time Lord Dannatt, who served as Chief of the General Staff from 2006 to

2008, has called for boots on the ground. In a newspaper article last month, he said the same thing, but was rebuffed by government sources.