It was one year ago that Donald Trump signaled he might just fire all the generals who he said were failing to defeat the Islamic State under the leadership of President Barack Obama.

“Well, they’ll probably be different generals, to be honest with you,” then-candidate Trump told NBC’s Matt Lauer aboard the carrier Intrepid in New York on Sept. 7, when asked about his plan to order the Pentagon to present him, within 30 days of his inauguration, a plan to swiftly defeat ISIS.