they were put in a rest area to refit for a couple of weeks and then they were sent to the verdun frontthe entire 35th they were because going to be part of the next offensive, which was going to be so they straight east, were in the verdun area and it was in that battlefield where there was a also a mass. truman referred to it -- i've -- buried in dim it wask yard all stop not a pretty place and that is where truman -- how was where he was operating in the last perhaps month or so of the war. >> could you discuss the issues all the artillery had with regular army officer, including how he limited the fire of the guns because he thought they would overheat -- he did not use -- and they only rested one third of their forces and meals at the start of the attack will stop i will address the last one first. mules, that was a big problem for the entire aef because we were rushing troops over there. we were pushing the troops really fast. french,dependent on the spainndant on buyers in for the horse flesh, the four-legged animals. the aef was always short, so they were trying to figure out ho

you think of caisson, and phu, maybe stalingrad in world war ii or verdun in world war i. the importance of kobani, first of all completely in the news. people from all the networks standing on a hillside watching every bomb drop. on the other side, isis is pumping out social media, that shows street fighting, house house-to-house fighting where they're being victorious. all of sudden, rather isolated and strategically unimportant place called kobani has turned into sort of a global, the global spotlight is turned on it and both side believe they can't lose the city. shannon: there is plenty of as you said, misinformation spread out there and because we're in a different world for this conflict with social media and people up loading their own videos and putting out information is very difficult to either confirm or deny with people there on the ground how has that changed the way that we fight these kinds of battles? >> oh, it's huge. there are two points at play here. first of all, both sides have learned that american air power decreases in its effectiveness as the insu