Henry Kissinger: “One of the things that is needed is for an Islamic reformation.”

The role of the United States is indispensable. It's time for a global upheaval. And the consequences of American disengagement magnifies and requires larger intervention later.

America's initiatives and its integrative approach will spell the difference between stability and calamity.

We have allowed inattention over 20 years to the structure, the practices, the bureaucracy of the Department of Defense that it has become so dysfunctional.

We have successfully defeated the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but the question now is the succession, what happens next.