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They faced last month, before the combat mission was over. what were formerly combat brigades are advise and assist brigades. youve still got platoons and companies going out partnering with iraqi security force toss secure the neighborhood. thankfully the situation there is a great deal better than it was before the surge, violence is down over 90 percent, markets are open , iraqs security forces are far more confident -- competent, but weve still got about 20,000 troops on a daily basis in har...

Argandab district and kandahar city. is that right? >> right. >> how far is the district out? >> you can see it from here. that is the argandab. >> it is famous in the states because people know how much fighting is going on. >> right. >> the role of this checkpoint is to stop the trouble there from coming to kandahar city? >> definitely. >> the idea of the checkpoint is there will be 13 of them ringing the city, to essentially disrupt the freedom of movement of insurgents who may be operating b...

There are more of them. we only have two platoons at that point and this time were going to get a whole canvas so theyll probably be partnering one to one with our battalion. >> one of the things thats noticeable is the chief of staff was here the other day, hit a roadside i.e.d. and survived it. one of the great things about this war we have great partners to work with and so does the afghan national army. back to you. >> all right. we have a great partner in you, colonel, for being over there ...

Counterinsurgency campaign and in these types of wars whats important is tactical security and tactical surprise. when and where are the companys platoons and batallions going to strike. when you get to the strategic levels the prize is not as important -- surprise is not as important as winning the war of words, the idea of shaping the narrative and intimidating the enemy so the u.s. command is doing this for three reasons: first of all, to tell the afghan people were there to support them and ...

Goal, according to the obama administration, was to funnel far more resources to every spy agency in this country and there are an awful lot and so on. under normal circumstances, an announcement like that would set off fear and trembling among our opponents around the world, the chinese might think twice before bribing harvard professors before sending eric swalwell a new secret agent to have with and he needs one. but in this case on a day of this announcement, they just laughed. they knew tha...

And with his ouster and spicer out as well, you are going to see a shift there in terms of the way that this white house is connected to the republican establishment. at the same time, this whole issue of leaking is really interesting because the president has fostered a culture inside the white house in which there were factions, people from different parts of the party people with different priorities. and one of the ways that you gain advantage is by leaking. so its part of the environment, i...

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Strategy memo saying the voters perceived her at that time as ruthless. so hillary, monica -- >> also the words of hillary clinton that i think are fascinating when she says that the folks looking for her husband are not mean enough and tough enough and that we learn from these papers. hillarys apparent abounding contempt for quite a number of quarters of public life and politics including the media. but i want to get back to your point, which is that these documents were available for four year...