david shay is a professor at the us national defense university also served in afghanistan. he says the tale bond is not the united force and things. the divisions within the group will make it hard to sustain battlefield gains. so i served in afghans sent 2000 to 2003 on the civil affairs task force. and quite frankly, what i saw was a, a military effort that was focused on cobble was very little done in the provinces . and basically the warlords retained a lot of power even while the central government sought to move out there. i think part of the reason why the situation looks so bad is that the warlords, who really have a lot of the fighting power in these provinces, are stepping back, waiting for the central government to reach a point of crisis, where they empower the individual warlords and then they'll move in, the taliban is overwhelmingly a pash tune movement. and so areas that have large passion populations like conduce province. you know, you can see them active there, but it's also important to bear in mind the taliban is not as unitary as we think it is. everyb