--- title: Donald Trump: Military Has Month to Hatch Plan to Stop ISIS description: Donald Trump will give his top military officials one month to deliver him a mandatory plan to vanquish ISIS if he becomes president. canonical: https://time.com/4481791/donald-trump-isis-30-days/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-07T12:41:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:38.104Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump: Military Has Month to Hatch Plan to Stop ISIS og:description: He'd give his top generals the "simple instruction" if elected og:url: https://time.com/4481791/donald-trump-isis-30-days/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6aed3cb286132822/6988a504428a9e5073cd428f/donald-trump-isis-30-days.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Holds Rally In Mesa, Arizona og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump: Military Has Month to Hatch Plan to Stop ISIS twitter:description: He'd give his top generals the "simple instruction" if elected twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6aed3cb286132822/6988a504428a9e5073cd428f/donald-trump-isis-30-days.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Wants Military to Hatch Plan to Stop ISIS in 30 Days > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump speaks to guests gathered during a campaign event at the International Air Response facility on December 16, 2015 in Mesa, Arizona. Ralph Freso—Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Sep 7, 2016 12:41 PM UTC [Donald Trump ](http://time.com/4481053/donald-trump-military-endorsements/)will give his top military officials a maximum of a month to [deliver a plan to vanquish ISIS](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-plan-defeat-isis-30-days-elected/story?id=41905399) if he wins the Oval Office, he said Tuesday. The Republican presidential nominee outlined the order before a [small crowd in North Carolina](http://time.com/4481424/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-emails/?xid=homepage). “We are going to convey my top generals and give them a simple instruction,” Trump said, according to ABC News. “They will have 30 days to submit to the Oval Office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS. We have no choice.” Trump and Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton are set to discuss military and veterans’ issues Wednesday night at a “commander-in-chief [forum](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/msnbc-nbc-news-present-first-ever-commander-chief-forum-n638401),” which is hosted in New York City and sponsored by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. \[[_ABC_](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-plan-defeat-isis-30-days-elected/story?id=41905399)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4481791/donald-trump-isis-30-days/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4481791/donald-trump-isis-30-days/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Wants Military to Hatch Plan to Stop ISIS in 30 Days","datePublished":"2016-09-07T12:41:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:38.104Z","description":"He'd give his top generals the \"simple instruction\" if elected","url":"https://time.com/4481791/donald-trump-isis-30-days/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6aed3cb286132822/6988a504428a9e5073cd428f/donald-trump-isis-30-days.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6aed3cb286132822/6988a504428a9e5073cd428f/donald-trump-isis-30-days.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Holds Rally In Mesa, Arizona","caption":"Donald Trump speaks to guests gathered during a campaign event at the International Air Response facility on December 16, 2015 in Mesa, Arizona.","creditText":"Ralph Freso—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4481791/donald-trump-isis-30-days/","name":"Donald Trump Wants Military to Hatch Plan to Stop ISIS in 30 Days"}}]}] ```