this jason dempsey is a former army major who served in afghanistan for nearly 2 years. during his 2009 deployment, he fought the taliban in kona voc caused and packed the provinces in eastern afghanistan with dana span in 2009. we were very good at targeting hunting and killing, but we were completely 100 percent lost when it came to the politics of the fight who we were actually fighting. and then what the in game was, there's a lot of morphing between well, is the priority al qaeda or is our new enemy? you know, is, are sworn forever, enemy, now the taliban, we just paint them all with one broad brush. they were the enemy, those easiest thing to do, and then count to success as taking the fight to them without ever thinking about, well, why do they keep coming? well i say ha, during his 2nd talk, jason dempsey was an advisor to the afghan military. his job was to train them to fight against the taliban. bought the 6 call of the afghan army, none but fewer than $300000.00 soldiers in total. and they were spread across a vast expanse. they received, you asked support in