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Basically indiscriminate fire. i think what is important to realize is get back to the bigger map, when we start looking at kyiv and we will do that in a little more detail. this is where the russian forces are really going to dbeing down. this is where they hit this viscous, very difficult area to achieve any movement at all. just think of any type urban combat, that type of human terrain is incredibly difficult to try to achieve some success. here is the -- um -- here is the image that you were just speaking about, erin, right up here. this is really what we are looking at is the convoy. wha...

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Look, we're only doing a fraction of what we should be doing. we need more, much more. more intelligence, more people, more understanding. >> during the next two years, flynn undertakes the reinvention of how american forces gather, analyze and execute intelligence in combat. >> you kill one of these guys, they are totally replaceable is what he realized. you have to go after the information first. if that means trying to keep the person alive and taking more risk, he was willing to do that. >> flynn focuses jsoc operations on retrieving information from captured insurgents. he is hands on. of...

The human terrain, all those kinds of features of places like afghanistan and syria, you're going to lose out. that's a real danger here. >> i want to play one more thing, something else the president said, when he was speaking to the troops about the syria withdrawal. let's play that. >> there will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria. very deliberate, very orderly. while maintaining the u.s. presence in iraq to prevent an isis resurgence and to protect u.s. interests and also to always watch very closely over any potential re-formation of isis and also to w...

That's another component of intelligence, which is the human aspect, the human terrain of understanding your opposition. general flynn did that very, very well. >> flynn tackles the critical turnaround time it takes to analyze intel and put it to use. >> he set up a system where they were analyzing it instantaneously. it might be a telephone number or e-mail that would lead them to the next house and to the next house. they would repeat that process. they were doing in some cases dozens of raids per night and rolling up networks of insurgents in a devastating and effective way. >> within two y...