Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.

ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.

This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.

By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.

Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.

Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.