effective counterinsurgency campaign requires, quote, a level of local knowledge that i don't have about my own ho hometown. not about his own hometown, let alone about afghan villages nestled in the hindu kush. >> we would breach a compound and someone would run out with an ak-47, and as our rules of engagement allowed, we would salute shoot and kill them. almost every compound had an ak-47. if someone came in your living room right now and you had an ak-47, you might go to defend your family. so i think we killed a lot of people who were defending hearth and home. i think we created a tremendous amount of ill will and fear in the afghan people. >> most of the time we got the individual that we were conducting the raid without firing a shot. most of the time. but when you run that many raids, eventually some of them are going to go bad, and there