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Operational support center. should there be more security? is that the response? >> absolutely. i think unfortunately the days and times we live in and recognized. unfortunately, we are not treating terrorism on a conventional method. we are treating people as lone actors and these individuals could turn up on any spontaneous moments. they are difficult to detect in the planning stages as we used to have with groups like al qaeda. therefore military targets and strip malls as we have seen here and training bases. in many respects officers manning the posts are not necessarily armed. there has ...

The field? >> reporter: the administration says noncombat continuing in military advisory role and training and assisting role. this is key. it's great point. they're not just confined to baghdad and erbil. they're going further afield. i'm told, for instance, there are now 300 u.s. troops in anbar province. anbar province, a good portion of anbar controlled by isis fighters. you now have u.s. forces out there and that's just one of the first forward deployments. you're going to have a dozen or so training bases, smaller bases around the country in contested areas that may not be front line tr...

U.s. troops to go to iraq. yesterday the secretary of defense, chuck hagel, signed their deployment orders for 1,300 of them. they are on their way. they'll be going there and i'm told by february of 2015, two months away, less than two months away, 3,000 troops will be on the ground. that's upper limit in effect of what the president has ordered. until very recently, all of those american troops, military advisers, folks doing train and assist, they were confined largely to baghdad and to erbil relative pockets of safety in iraq. now over time they're going to be more forward deployed includi...

Kind of dismantle the training bases there in northe north. it was killing a lot of their leadership, so he was probably able to see the effectiveness of that to some extent. we don't know where he was kept, how he was kept, but i would imagine he was moved quite a bit and would have a lot of knowledge about this area that is still a no-go zone. >> fascinating. well, thank you so much for your insight, mike boettcher, a former colleague of cnn and now documentary filc maker of "the hornet's nest." thanks so much for joining us. we'll be right back. so we made purina one true instinct. learn mo...

Don't see any foreign influence. then i don't see any connection to al qaeda. they want to keep it in this box. we keep avoiding the bigger issue, which is look, this is what radical islam, jihadism is about and what they've been about for several years now. we took away their permanent training bases, killed their operational leaders in al qaeda, above al qaeda is the concept and very real and dangerous of radical islam. they want to identif people, if i'm somebody, if i'm a jihadist. those two brothers are who i'm looking for. whether they self-radical eyes and never get their hands-on them ...