battalions are living with iraqi army and iraqi police in security stations right in neighborhoods. >> it's a question of providing security for those who live in that society in order to strengthen the host nation government so they can take over the task and you can get out. >> it was a reflection of the study of vietnam and experience in the balkin. >> to come in and stake a huge chunk of your career on develop ago new approach particularly one as radical as his was it was not by any stretch of the imagination a fore gone career. >> the field manual was published in december 2006 and it 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. they were like who has the next good idea because we better get