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We'll have more on that from frederick pleigten who joins us. >> reporter: it really is the first major offensive since a chaj of strategy by the u.s. in afghanistan. if you boil it down to the basics, the main on -- objective is showing the people in that town that is currently held by the taliban that their own government, the afghan government, is a better alternative than the taliban. to do all of this what the marines want to do, they want to go in quick and hard, take out the taliban as fast as possible and at the same time keep civilian casualties to a minimum. that's very important in ...
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