seen. and as we move into the winter months very rapidly here, there is something else and it sounds like inside baseball. but it's actually very critical. mattis leaves in february. you're going to see a change of command in several key positions that was already scheduled. the head of central command who oversees the wars in the middle east and afghanistan is leaving this winter. the head of special operations command leaving this winter. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff already scheduled to retire in october, his replacement will be general mark milley, the head of the army. general milley, a supporter of president trump, but also a man of the battlefield with lots of combat experience in afghanistan. he will be somebody who will have to answer a lot of tough questions about how can you take troops out of afghanistan? how can you not support alliances? how can you not support nato?