r.t. donovan a studio thanks for coming in can you tell us why are they classifying the areas controlled by the taliban well in the first and foremost this is not the only thing that i classifying that they are concealing also the have been casualties of the number of afghan soldiers killed and trained by the american forces is being concealed as well and i mean the territory under the control of both the pentagon of both the afghan forces and of the taliban respectively is the key indicator of how well were not so well this war has been fairing for washington and the american troops have been for like almost twenty years now and this is a war that has been going on to world for the united states and this is something that the admitted themselves as early as last year for example here's how the u.s. secretary of defense characterized the situation. and the urgent understand it's my responsibility we're not winning in afghanistan right now and we will correct. well america's favorite tool for correcting pretty much anything is bombs so in twenty seventeen alone forty three hundred airstrikes