A Global Strategy for Combating al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

The article offers the authors' insight on the challenge posed to the U.S. in combating the terrorist groups Al Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS), which have created a caliphate and expanded control in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. Topics discussed include the misconception of American leaders of the groups' threat to security, suggesting to avoid defeatism, and the growth in the terrorists' military capacity.