I've been there I actually liked it there for some odd reason but all I can tell you from what i saw with my own eyes is that we lost this war already. From higher shit is rolling down hill quick and morale is low all i could think about was "The art of war" fighting over there and the disadvantages we had. Besides enemy casualties greatly exaggerated shit most of the time we didn't know what we were shooting at. We would call in all sorts of support from cobras to 2000 pounders and they still kept shooting. If you spend the kind of money like we did to take a measly little village we won't have enough for the whole country period. And i would say more than 50% is controlled by the Taliban. When you take in to account what sun tzu said you can see what i mean.