, a combat veteran from the iraq war and now one of the top commanders in this fight. >> peter gersten: we're in the combined joint operations center. >> logan: general gersten took us into the war room in baghdad, where iraqis and americans have been sitting side by side for more than a year. coalition air strikes have come through here. who is bringing the intelligence that feeds these calls? >> gersten: we have our own intelligence. we have national intelligence. everything's fusing in different parts of this building and coming to this strike cell, and that's where it's checked and coordinated and approved. >> logan: on their screens, live feeds from drones that record every minute of the war, and scenes from inside islamic- state-held territory, like this one in a town in western iraq that gersten and the iraqis were watching on september 11th this year. these are isis photographs that general gersten confirmed were from the same scene. in the town square, 12 islamic state fighters were preparing to execute this man. >> gersten: they brought small children and brought them to the