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They faced last month, before the combat mission was over. what were formerly combat brigades are advise and assist brigades. you've still got platoons and companies going out partnering with iraqi security force toss secure the neighborhood. thankfully the situation there is a great deal better than it was before the surge, violence is down over 90 percent, markets are open , iraq's security forces are far more confident -- competent, but we've still got about 20,000 troops on a daily basis in harm's way partnering with iraq to make sure that now that we've won the war, the 7-plus years, that...

Argandab district and kandahar city. is that right? >> right. >> how far is the district out? >> you can see it from here. that is the argandab. >> it is famous in the states because people know how much fighting is going on. >> right. >> the role of this checkpoint is to stop the trouble there from coming to kandahar city? >> definitely. >> the idea of the checkpoint is there will be 13 of them ringing the city, to essentially disrupt the freedom of movement of insurgents who may be operating between kandahar city and outlying areas. we are here with captain john thomas, the company commander...

There are more of them. we only have two platoons at that point and this time we're going to get a whole canvas so they'll probably be partnering one to one with our battalion. >> one of the things that's noticeable is the chief of staff was here the other day, hit a roadside i.e.d. and survived it. one of the great things about this war we have great partners to work with and so does the afghan national army. back to you. >> all right. we have a great partner in you, colonel, for being over there in afghanistan. thanks very much for that report. new video from china as rescuers frantically tr...

Counterinsurgency campaign and in these types of wars what's important is tactical security and tactical surprise. when and where are the company's platoons and batallions going to strike. when you get to the strategic levels the prize is not as important -- surprise is not as important as winning the war of words, the idea of shaping the narrative and intimidating the enemy so the u.s. command is doing this for three reasons: first of all, to tell the afghan people we're there to support them and make them secure. secondly, to tell them we're coming so the afghans can get out of the way and r...

Goal, according to the obama administration, was to funnel far more resources to every spy agency in this country and there are an awful lot and so on. under normal circumstances, an announcement like that would set off fear and trembling among our opponents around the world, the chinese might think twice before bribing harvard professors before sending eric swalwell a new secret agent to have with and he needs one. but in this case on a day of this announcement, they just laughed. they knew that money was not going to buy more drones, that money was new platoons of equity and inclusion consul...