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Way the russians talk about this themselves, because they are proud of their capability in this regard. they did have a putin senior adviser last february threaten in public that the united states was about to be humbled and brought down to an equal footing with russia by a new offensive capability and information warfare that the russian military was about to unleash against us. they really did do that. they got out in public and po d pounded their chest about it. also, their equivalent of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff wrote a public manifesto on russian military might that is now...

The capacity to go and take the fight on the street and counter isis' offensive capability. the secretary of defense made this comment a year ago after two iraqi divisions collapsed and ran. what we've seen now is that we've seen this year-long process where we will leadreal n the iraqi army are coming to the top and guys who really know how to fight. losers who were just there for political purposes have either been killed or fired and the iraqi forces are showing true military capability now. >> just to be clear, you think that what ash carter once said, that iraqis don't have a will to figh...

Between the taliban, nato forces, afghan forces in this area for days and the taliban uses these particular areas whether a hospital or school or mosque as a shield. how do you prevent that from happening because that will continue to be a strategy. >> absolutely. again, this happened -- i note this in my book in 2003, the taliban were encouraging the afghan militia to give us the wrong information, thereby describing one of their tribal adversaries. so that's why solid intelligence is so very important to being effective in this environment. we've cut back to about 10,000 troops. we're minimi...

Artillery and how itsers seized from other places and the iraqi troops, supposed to be a big, organized army, is fighting back with the machine guns mounted on top of the old american humvees. without any air support and that's a very big difference. they -- this unit is still holding up. other units like we have seen out in the west, out in mosul and places where the militants are even stronger, have been completely collapsing. so, the unit we saw, held together. it looks good. they're able to mobilize. but they don't have a lot of offensive capability. they're at least at this stage just try...

Bubt, but it's also if you prepare, if you manage your way around it, it doesn't mean that we all have to run around with like chickens with our heads cut off. at the end of the day, the challenge of this space is that there's probably no issue that has become more important than cybersecurity u and though is least understood, whether you're talking about the politicians or the business executives or just you and my role as citizens and consumers. >> you wrote the book on how future wars could be fought, not even necessarily on the battlefie battlefields, but within technology. where does amer...