headquarters of the operations of afghanistan was a soviet built a base, kandahar arab world, a lot of the bases we operate in the south are soviet bases operate along the same roads and san logistical networks the soviets used. we face a lot of the very same tactics against the forces and called police the soviets faced in the 1980's. ied said in bush placed in the same places. a lot of the leaders of the insurgency facing today and they are truly dangerous commanders. the guys that kind controlled large attacks involving 100 or 200 insurgents. serious commanders. those are people w...