companies and battalions are living with iraqi army and iraqi police in security stations right in neighborhood. >> a question of providing security for those who lived in that society in order to strengthen the government to take over the task and you can get out. >> this is a reflex if you study vietnam and experience in in mosul. >> to stake a huge chunk of your career on developing a new approach to it, particularly one as radical as his proved to be, that was not by any step of the najibullah nation, a foregone career move. >> it was published in december of 2006 and caused a sensation. in the first two months on the internet it was downloaded 2 million times. by the time it was published, you had a situation where it was increasingly clear to most observers we were failing in iraq. people were like who has the