surrendering anytime soon. to the taliban, this is a fight to the finish. last man standing wins. they are fighting the best trained, best equipped fighting force in the world. american service men and women and their nato allies. aas this map shows you right here, it is a two-front war in pakistan. some taliban forces and elements of al qaeda use the mountainous borders as safe havens and staging points to launch attacks against u.s. forces in afghanistan. officials complain that the pakistani government is not doing enough to stop these cross border raids. the past knife years have been witness to a fierce fighting and mountain casualties there. as this graphic shows you, 1,215 american troops have been killed. 2,1219 nato soldiers have died in that war. fighting the taliban right now are some 95,000 troops and about 48,000 troops from 46 countries. these pictures serve as an
troops, he wasn t going to do that until secretary mattis heard a clear strategy that everyone within the president s national security council bought into. now you can expect the troop levels to change. 4,000 is the number that is out there. it could be lower or higher. now that they have a strategy, then they ll decide the exact troop numbers. i think the key thing to listen for is pakistan. what the president says about going after terrorists and extremist networks in pakistan. they re doing all these cross border raids. one other note, look to see whether or not he wants to plus up the counterterrorism mission. this is the mission going after isis and how much he wants to do traditional nation building. hallie? hans, i ll let you listen in to the defense secretary s remarks from jordan. thank you for that set up. i want to go to kristen welker live at the white house. this is a significant policy announcement for president trump. obviously, when you talk about what we know abou