likely we are to him general petraeus and general odierno who could pull it off. now, a lot of those levers do not exist early on in the war, and a lot of those functional commands were not present early in the war. so it's really only, i would argue, as you get into the latter stage in general cases tenure in command and general petraeus' tenure in command, general petraeus had great some of his own levers. general odierno had a great some of his own levers in order to have those tools to fully address the complexity of the problem. and this goes to a second theme that i would like to touch upon which, could you pick the surge up from 2007, 2008 and put down some of the point in the war? could you have done in 2003 what was done in 2007 and 2008? could you have done it earlier, could yet fully exploited the opportunities that might have existed in 2003, four, five and six in the way they were exploited in 2007 and eight? there are some precursors for the surge that i would argue unfortunately weren't present earlier in the war. the first is that there is a change

petraeus, odierno, and you, makes me a 12-star host so don't try to pull rank on me, all right? share of the reading, so tell me about "my share of the task." what are you trying to say in this book. it's about personal responsibility? >> it is. it's about being part of a team but accepting your part of the responsibility for that because ultimately, you have a responsibility to other people, the people who you work for and who you stand next to. >> stephen: you commanded jsoexrrks. you are the guide that turned jsoc-- the joint special operations command-- into a real javelin against al qaeda and our ?ms in afghanistan and iraq. you guys took out zarqawi. explain what jsoc does. >> it brings together america's most elite forces and it it is used for the most precise missions -- hijack, the mission against osama bin laden. >> stephen: sale team 6, delta guys. >> all of those forces. and they're brought together so you can put all these capabilities together in very, very different missions. >> stephen: you retired after it was noted in "rolling stone" magazine that you criticize

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eric, general odierno, the army's chief of staff came out and said this soldier level would be absolutely way too small. he also said that we would be at high risk to meet one major war. isn't the best way to prevent war to keep the strongest military? >> i do, and this may surprise a lot of people, but i'm okay with this. i'm okay with a troop drawdown. i don't like the fact we're not becoming -- draw them down. we don't want to be boots in the ground in other countries anymore. we want to defend our soil, american interest abroad and here, but let's do it smarter. let's do it with drones, with air -- the air force. let's do it with submarines. i think this is actually probably a smart thing to do. my only problem is when you dig farther into what they're proposing, they're saying freeze admiral and generals' pay. slow down housing allowances at all levels of the military. increase contributions for some former, no longer active marines and other military service people. so in other words, it's going to cost you more if you're an ex-service person for health care, but if you're, you know

and the state department and but to his credit president bush won and victory has this with general odierno and it was president bush against every political headwinds to include members of his own party saying get out. but more important is how those forces would be used in accordance with the new counterinsurgency documents that were published in december 2006. first it was a provision that enable them to change the approach and more importantly dan, the movement of those forces backed off, positioning them within the community that they would protect and detecting the population was the only way to drive down that violence and thereby enabling politics. .. we finally had enough forces to pursue the enemy throughout iraq and eliminate the "safe haven" that cropped up in the previous three years of the war. we created a force of strategic en-- opportunities to -- insurgency and bring in support of the government. you can never defeat them all. beat them all, that's pretty tough tall order especially in a period of insurgency such as that we face. there was learning and adapting going on. i

the army chief of staff, general ray odierno, says the service may have overlooked character issues in the push to fill the ranks during ten years of war. air pollution in china has gotten so bad that state media actually criticized the government today. over the weekend, fireworks celebrations in beijing helped push air quality well into hazardous territory. today, the english-language "china daily" said the failure to take emergency steps was indefensible. it said the inaction flies in the face of earlier promises. at the winter olympics in sochi, russia, a week of warm weather gave way to heavy fog, forcing organizers to shuffle the schedule. the men's biathalon race and snowboard-cross were postponed until tomorrow as fog made visibility extremely low. a top official with the international ski federation said delay was the only option. >> yes, it's a pity and the fog didn't move the whole day, it was always staying the same. now in the afternoon, now really late, it cleared up but this is too late for any competitions. for tomorrow the weather forecast is: the fog will leave but un

he joins us live with general ray odierno in afghanistan. why did you bring john harbaugh with you?> well, john does so much for our soldiers, and we talked for a couple of months and he wanted to come over to afghanistan. so i was heading over this week. i asked if he wanted to join me. he jumped right on board, and here he is. >> john, what's it been like for you? >> i tell you, it's been an incredible experience, brian. general o. has given us a chance to tag along and be a fly on the wall. it has been impressive to see how our country operates over here and see how everybody works together. incredible dedication of our service members, men and women, how talented they are, how well they work together, how well they work with soldiers from other countries. it's been awesome. i wish every american could see what i've had a chance to see this week. >> general, how do the guys and the women there respond to super bowl-winning coach coming over to see them? what about their message is very similar to the military message? >> well, first, with the soldiers, they appreciate anybody who

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general odierno would prefer more flexibility but it gives him enough flexibility to meet the requirementshat any korean contingency would require to sustain our commitment to the forces on the peninsula and protect the homeland but the smaller the force the less else you can do. it's not korea. korea was an input. on youtube and global -- you too and global hawk generally speaking anytime we can work closely with our allies and share capabilities and equipment it's a good thing so we have been back-and-forth on the u2 and block 30 decision and i would say it has always been a close call. when we looked at it this year the operating and sustain the cost of the global hawk block 30 have come down significantly. the contractor perhaps because we said last year we weren't going to keep it became very aggressive to help us get those costs down and we are appreciative that and of course the air force is working very hard themselves so i don't want to take away any credit deserving to the air force for getting those costs down. with those costs down and make sense to keep the global hawk block 3