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More intelligence, more people, more understanding. >> during the next two years, flynn undertakes the reinvention of how american forces gather, analyze and execute in combat. >> you kill one of these guys, they are replacement. 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 operations on retrieving information from captured insurgents. he is hands on. often interrogating prisoners himself. >> he wanted to talk to the key leaders in al qaeda. he says that to do good intelligence agains...

Of how american forces gather, analyze and execute intelligence in combat. >> you kill one of these guys, they are replaceable is what he realized. you have to go after the information first. if that mean 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. often interrogating prisoners himself. >> he wanted to talk to the key leaders in al qaeda. he says that to do good intelligence against this enemy, you have to be able to get inside his head. so you have to see w...

Doing everything we'd ever been trained to do to defeat this insurgency. the way they were using land mines and ieds was tactically correct. so we knew there was a degree of professionalism we were facing and it was deadly. >> the iraqi battle space was a complex environment, learning the human terrain was as important if not more important than understanding the physical terrain. >> the key to understanding the area was to maintain a relationship with the local inhabitants. spend time with them, gather information. >> every individual can give you something you didn't know. that was a trick e...

Small military. what that is. i don't now. 30,000 street fighters, they in the grand scheme of things, don't have any significant armor or artillery. is the hover board the one that you would be most concerned no industrial base and it's the about this holiday season? >> it's getting the most collaboration is not necessarily more military assets. more in terms of the attention. it's something that celebrities intelligence and more in terms have been using this season. of predictive human intelligence they post pictures of themselves rather than signals or electronic intelligence. united states...

Avoiding civilian casualtyies a premise we should pursue? >> we have to avoid civilian casualties. there are plenty of times i had targets in my sites and not comfortable because i would not know for sure a target or civilian house. somebody says it might be a legitimate target, it might not. i'm not going to go around killing kids and have that on my conscious and drag down the american war effort. my loyalties and sympathies are with the pilots being careful in targets they do attack. isis knows that and take advantage of that. in terms of propaganda war, they don't think of control of terra...