I urge you, as Senator Shelby did, to keep your focus on that issue.

Recall too, the history of 2001. We didn't defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan through total overwhelming firepower.

Proper coordination and concurrence procedures ensure that urgent security capacity building requirements do not undermine the United States' overarching foreign policy priorities.

The FMF program is a critical tool for executing our foreign policy; it is key to improving bilateral relationships.

DOD has an advantage over DOS in providing certain capacity-building assistance, such as building the operational capacity of partner nations.

they are dealing with an uphill battle with a longstanding oppressive regime that makes little distinctions about attacking civilians.

The information domain is global in scope and our enemies will attempt to use this domain to achieve a comparative advantage.

The Taliban is really right now--here we are in April--feeling what the summer's going to look like and it's not going to be a pleasant summer.

It's a little bit easier to talk open here, just based on my own experience and assessment.

Do you believe there should be more emphasis on building the capacity of our partner's national law enforcement entities?

I think the signals you're seeing of reintegration, reconciliation movements within these populations of Taliban is exactly the effect that we intend to create.

Mr. Reid. Yes. Over the last several years, the Department has worked to drastically increase intelligence support to warfighters across the board.

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