african command and ucom and some others. i will just note on the first one that has certainly be no taking of assets from afghanistan and i've heard absolutely nothing about that whatsoever. secretary gates was very clear on the enormous capabilities that we have in our military. by the way, we are now getting to the one-year deployed, two years back, so the one to two years dwell time as well with our services. that is a function of not just having drawn down our forces in iraq. we're down from 165,000 in at the peak to somewhere in the high 40's but also because of the increase of our forces, the restructuring of them, the development of more of the so-called high demand, low density forces and the intelligence communities and so son. so there has been real progress there as well. >> i want to thank you very much. i hope you and the audience have felt that i have been at least an adequate representative of you and your questions. we wanted to have a conversation but we wanted to bring as many of you into this dialogue as p

that you're seeing in terms of their military modernization efforts and how that is affecting the ucom environment at the a.r.? >> i can. in terms of where we are cooperating with russia, there is actually a wide spectrum of activities, some of which you may not generally be aware of. one is piracy. russia's operating ships off the coast of africa working very closely with nato and european union ships along with those of other nations. . another area is courpt terrorism. we are cooperating with them in that regard. courpt narcotics, russia has a very bad problem with opium and heroin. >> i guess go on to the bad news? >> yes. there will be areas where we don't agree with russia. the situation in georgia is will be of those, for example, where we stand for the territorial integrity of georgia. but i think on balance overall certainly compeard to the cold war, and i -- compeard to the cold war and i would say compared to three, four years ago, these zones are in place and expanding. the one we're looking to is messle defense. it's out -- missile defense. >> thank you very much. if i cou