Transcripts For CSPAN2 20170619

That its going to sort of fall apart now that hes gone. Unfortunately, there are others that are ready and willing to take up the charge, so we find ourselves in thensurgent he campaigned. Around this time we have general Stanley Mcchrystal coming in as a commander and the task force 714 that he sets up in iraq and at the time it was not particularly active and there were still a lot of people that fought the forces should not be giving the daily operations. They should focus on only the big targets. They decided that we cannot do that and its not going to work so he looks for ways to ramp up operation and does so very effectively and we can see from here it was up to 300 in 2006 and this is made possible by the advances in communications technology. They are using cell phones and computers without a lot of thought as to the fact that they are getting intercepted. So quite impressive and a lot of people think that it is at this scale we cannot affect the insurgency. We also have another term people sometimes get confused about, but its basically the operators that are not a part so it is mainly the special forces and navy seals at this time. They also decide that they want to do this and go out and hold down bad guys in the middle of the night and this is a move away from their more traditional goal of working with local forces, local populations and will come under fire from a number of the community for taking them away from that. So wt we think of this counterinsurgency typically workinascorinsurgey typically working with local forces to secure the population is actually done mainly by conventional forces and we will see over time there is better collaboration between the special operations and general Purpose Forces as we call them because initially a lot of them are running around doing things by themselves thinking that this is going to win the war and they ticked off a lot of the commanders that had to go and explain to the population would have happened and clean up the mess. Over time they learned to Work Together and what they did could be mutually reinforcing and there was a mess in the myth ine counterinsurgency that you dont need to actually capture and thats falsthats false that yot of division of labor were the special operators would go in and do the capture and killing of the leadership targets and they would do more population Security Industry and retail targets