Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20160105:15:28:00
Geographically it is very difficult, isn't it? >> yeah. it is certainly one of the most austere places that i've operated out of. you've got obviously the desert plain, but then the hindu cush as well. the capabilities of the taliban with ground knowledge was something we didn't quite get our heads around. they know the lay of the land incredibly well. getting around that part of the world, getting around helmand province is something very difficult to do and on what the brits and the americans had to do was they had to literally pour a significant amount of helicopter capability in there in o...
Source: news source