>> secretary tillerson, i know you don't want to talk about the military, but you were just using some military terms. >> i know and understand why the administration does not want to talk about tactical moves. strategy, don't the american people deserve to know approximately how many more of their sons and daughters will be going back to afghanistan in a war that's lasted 16 years? >> i don't want to speak for secretary mattis. i think what the president has conveyed and i agree with him. we are not going to signal ahead what our plans are we're not going to signal ahead an increase, a decrease, the timing of any of that. it will be driven by conditions on the ground. the only way we can defeat an enemy that is as nimble and cagey as this enemy, we have to be as cagey and tactical as they