mr. forsberg, if you will, five minutes. >> mr. chairman, ranking member subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify this afternoon on the issue of tte host nation trucking contract. i'm honored to testify in the issue of great significance for our campaign in afghanistan and i appreciate the chairman and the committee's leadership on this pressing question. i want to address today the strategic context of contracts, like the host nation trucking contract, to highlight their complications for the -- implications to defeat the taliban and to leave a high and enduring afghan government. the chief strategic concern with current contracting practices is that private security companies in -pafghanistan tend to subcontra or pay predatory afghan militias that further the ends often at the expense of 3em, to understand why this is such a concern, it is helpful to remember that winning a counterinsurgency fight is largely a question of establishing the legitimacy of a government. lack of government legitimacy is, after all, the c