“Can we do what we think we need to do to take away the will of the enemy?” he asked during a presentation to Army officers Sept. 10 at the Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, in Fort Benning, Georgia.

“It‘s not about weapon systems, it‘s not about killing. It‘s about removing confidence in the enemy, removing the willingness to do what they think they need to do,” he said. “We‘ve lost our idea of what winning means, he said. The missions for the last 10 years have been to defeat, destroy al-Qaida or the Taliban. Both are still in place, he noted. “In fact they‘ve grown.”