presidential policy guidance that i signed yesterday. in the afghan war theater, we must and will continue to support our troops until the transition is complete at the end of 2014. that means we will continue to take strikes against high value al qaeda targets but also against forces that are massing to support attacks on coalition forces. by the end of 2014, we will no longer have the same need for force protection. and the progress we've made against core al qaeda will reduce the need for unmanned strikes. beyond the afghan theater, we only target al qaeda and its associated forces. and even then the use of drones is heavily could not strained. america does not take strikes when we have the ability to