Inconsistent. Can you tell us in your judgment whether or not first of all the is our mission succeeding in afghanistan, first of all, but secondly, can you tell us about the capabilities of the Afghan Security forces and whether they are on track for where we expected them to be at this point in the campaign with a little over 20 months to go until the end of the i. C. F. Mission. Thank you, chairman. Ill defer. I thought i would start with general madison. Did i say you, admiral . Im sorry. Chairman, our mission is succeeding. The Afghan Campaign is on track. It is obviously a combination of progress and violence but i would say when it comes down to the ansf, the Afghan National Security Forces, they are proving themselves capable. Obviously; when we were looking at the drawdown numbers, there was a certain amount of forecasting that the Afghan Forces would be capable. Let me give you some statistics to take this beyond simply my evaluation. Since the first of january we have lost f
Lehrman auditorium. We, of course, welcome those who are joining us on our heritage. Org web site. For those inhouse as we prepare to begin, please, make sure cell phones have been turned off. It is our courtesy our speakers do appreciate. We will post the Program Within 24 hours on our heritage home page for your further reference as well. Hosting our event today is steven bucci. Dr. Bucci is director of our dougallyson center, he previously served as fellow for defense and homeland security. He is well verse inside the special Area Operations and cybersecurity areas as well as defense support to civil authorities. He served for three decades as an Army Special Forces officer and top pentagon official. In july 2001 he assumed the duties of military assistant to secretary rumsfeld and worked daily with the secretary for the next five and a half years. And then upon retirement from the army he continued at the pentagon as Deputy Assistant secretary of defense, Homeland Defense and Ameri
Appear to come from a compound of security personnel, and local officials that isis has attacked near this town which is a crucial place, there is an important base there for example and it has been fighting around this area for some time an area where theres a large number of sunni muslims living in that area so isis has been in this region of iraq for some time and then across iraq over in erbil overnight we had fighting between isis and Kurdish Forces that continued for hours, close combat there. Senior iraqi official said tens of isis fighters were killed and some of their vehicles were destroyed, and local sources told nbc news that isis launched several waves of attacks before being repelled by reinforcements and air strikes. Ronan, you remember that erbil is a crucial city. There are u. S. Official there is. Isis tried to push towards that city last august and didnt werent successful but it just goes to show that isis is still seems despite the air strikes confident enough to tr
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