Martin Dempsey: “nothing good comes of it because what essentially we do is we fence ourselves off from the next generation.”

Under no circumstances should we relieve pressure on Iran relative to ballistic missile capabilities and arms trafficking.

This is a community that has faced and overcome crises with resilience and strength.

ISIL would love nothing more than a large presence of United States forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria so that they could have a call to jihad.

If we have fewer forces forward, we will be less deterrent and less reassuring to our allies.