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Paris. >> what is it that you guys have gotten wrong in underestimating isis? >> well, chuck, i think we very clearly understand the threat from isil, and the fact of the matter is when we launched our air campaign, the president was very clear that this would be a long-term effort. this is a different type of terrorist enemy that aims to hold territory, that is drawing thousands of recruits and that's why we've been in this effort launching again thousands of air strikes. recently targeting isil leadership including jihadi john in syria, the leader of isil in libya. we're in this for the long...

And control type terrorist enemy. and that meant they had discipline and it meant they could take on big things like 9/11 but it also meant that when we started to go after them they are vulnerable to attacks on the command-and-control structure and on their logistic structure. isil's more resilient because it is more decentralized and informal in that sense. takes a different kind of campaign. we're highly awareof that asis law enforcement, by the way. >> and president obama also talked about lone wolf attacks while at the pentagon yesterday. listen to this. >> the small individual lone wolf ...

Near the end of it. can you give us an assessment of that? >> well, whether we're at the beginning of the end or end of the beginning, i'm not going to tell you right now, because we face a very brutal terrorist enemy. i mean, here's the difference between us. we are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles. that's basically the difference. they're embedding these rockets that they're firing wholesale into our cities, terrorist rockets, trying to kill as many as they can. they're not succeeded because of two reasons. one is bec...

Can you assess that? >> whether we are at the end of the going or the beginning of the under i will not tell you because we face a very, very brutal terrorist enemy. here is the difference: we are using missile dense to protect our civilians and they are using their civilians to protect their missiles. that is the difference. they are embedding the rockets, terrorist rockets, trying to kill as many as they can and they are not succeeding because of two reasons: one we have developed an incredible missile defense system which is historic development in the hit of defensive warfare with the help...

The group, and it reads like a corporate annual report on all of the military activities in iraq since 2012. it breaks down iraq into seven areas of responsibility. the terror group looks like it has learned how to clear, hold and build a key doctrine of the u.s. insurgency, and jessica lewis has looked at it for the institute of war. >> these are planned and coordinated offenses that are extremely well executed and we have to think of more in terms of how the disrupt the strategy as if they were a conventional enemy and not a terrorist enemy who can execute spectacular attacks. >> last year, ...