throughout the region. >> courtney, put this in the context of what the general just la laid out for us here. number of operations. the hot spots in africa that we're watching north. if you can do that for us. >> yeah, he's right. there's been expansion of the u.s. military presence and mission in that area. there's been just even recently an expansion in the late chad bas basin. there's even a u.s. military presence. the u.s. opened a new drone base in niger recently. they have dedicated some more assets to it. they need more access to drones.