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Its basically a goal. its the goal to try to rely on the generals, let them decide how many troops are needed, to delegate authority to the battlefield commanders. as you saw yourself in mosul, they are calling in air strikes. the iraqis are calling in air strikes. this has led to a much faster pace. the presidents constant refrain as you saw in the piece is he wants to deliver on that campaign promise of defeating isis. and he seems committed to it, leaving the strategy, as i say, completely up...

Responsibility. >> richard, the strategy is really not a strategy. its basically a goal. its the goal to try to rely on the generals, let them decide how many troops are needed, to delegate authority to the battlefield commanders. as you saw yourself in mosul, they are calling in air strikes. the iraqis are calling in air strikes. this has led to a much faster pace. the presidents constant refrain as you saw in the piece is he wants to deliver on that campaign promise of defeating isis. and he s...

Chief, and he has that responsibility. >> richard, the strategy is really not a strategy. its basically a goal. its the goal to try to rely on the generals, let them decide how many troops are needed, to delegate authority to the battlefield commanders. as you saw yourself in mosul, they are calling in air strikes. the iraqis are calling in air strikes. this has led to a much faster pace. the presidents constant refrain as you saw in the piece is he wants to deliver on that campaign promise of d...

President to duck responsibility from controversial decisions. so lets talk about it with the lieutenant colonel rick francona, a cnn military analyst. lieutenant colonel, thank you and good to see you. the most recent example i want to point out of this is giving defense secretary james mattis, recently retired four star generally, the power to set troops in afghanistan. are military members comfortable with that kind of power? are you comfortable with that? >> actually, im not. thif the presid...

Up. thousands of troops are pulled out. 4,000 or so well go back in but is that enough? it doesnt necessarily get the volume of u.s. soldiers back in afghanistan in order to fight the growing threat there. >> i think the question is a little bit less than how many we are sending and more so how will they be utilized? obama essentially just kicked the can for years on afghanistan and wanted to pull out, we have about 9800 troops there. the reality is under obama, those troops had a very strict ru...

Warrant. this is where we have to fight this as a military operation. we need to be far more aggressive than weve been. call it whatever you want. >> kat: political correctness has played a role in making it harder for you look at something like san bernardino where the neighbors saw things and they were afraid to say because they were worried about calling -- being called islamaphobic. >> eric: allow me to read from "usa today," not a right-wing or conservative publication. "u.s.-led coalition ...

>> well, first of all, what the president saw -- what we all saw when we came into office was that the previous administration had a lot of decision that is should have been made by the battlefield commanders, they were being made by the west-wing of the white house. thats not the right place. the west-wing of the white house doesnt know what the conditions are like or the threats they are facing. president trump has taken a number of steps to delegate that authority back where it belongs, back ...

>> well, first of all, what the president saw -- what we all saw when we came into office was that the previous administration had a lot of decision that is should have been made by the battlefield commanders, they were being made by the west-wing of the white house. thats not the right place. the west-wing of the white house doesnt know what the conditions are like or the threats they are facing. president trump has taken a number of steps to delegate that authority back where it belongs, back ...

>> well, first of all, what the president saw -- what we all saw when we came into office was that the previous administration had a lot of decision that is should have been made by the battlefield commanders, they were being made by the west-wing of the white house. thats not the right place. the west-wing of the white house doesnt know what the conditions are like or the threats they are facing. president trump has taken a number of steps to delegate that authority back where it belongs, back ...

Decisions in the hands of battlefield commanders. he has general mick nickelson. he has probably done six tours in afghanistan. he commanded where this was. the problems with where this device was used a year ago last march and april was the location where we fought for six years, u.s. aircraft supported the afghans to drive isis out of that area already.ct against isis in nandahar. that fighting has been going on south of highway 1. and in an area not far from torah bora, ironically where we us...