sigar partnered with us. secretary mattis directed us to do a failure analysis to go back and look at what has worked and what hasn't worked in that and the stanford were the key partners were brought in in mr. sacco in my office idiot representatives on their team so we did a failure analysis and it was very much informed by the work is sigar has done over the past two years not only with regard to projects as you talk about but they have done some good work on resource transparency and accountability and did some good work on what worked and what did didn't work in our phase three effort into some good work on what worked and didn't work in terms of collaboration between the state department and the department of defense so i think i feel confident saying that sigar's work in the literature that talks about what has worked and what hasn't worked in that and stand as a part of the recommendations. >> general or chairman also the last sigar report indicated 21% increase of security incidents from last quarter

i feel confident in saying that sigar's work as well as some of the other literature out there that talks about what has worked and hasn't worked in afghanistan is very much a part of the recommendations we made to secretary mattis and the president. >> also on that one, the july sigar report has a 21% increase in security incidents of last quarter of march 2017 and increase from the same period last year. what does this uptick in the security incidents tell us about the security situation overall and how are we shaping our strategy going forward in light of these particular figures? you can answer that quickly, time has elapsed. >> sure. will tell you i don't think any of us are satisfied where security in afghanistan has been in 2016 and 2017 although 2017 is slightly better than 2016. the reason why we believe those incidents have occurred because the afghan forces haven't had the wherewithal for their mission. we focused where they have fallen short of the mark and security aviation and level needed. >> thank you. >> mr. chairman, secretary mattis and general dunford thank you for joi

i feel confident in saying that sigar's work as well as some of the other literature out there that talks about what has worked and hasn't worked in afghanistan is very much a part of the recommendations we made to secretary mattis and the president. >> also on that one, the july sigar report has a 21% increase in security incidents of last quarter of march 2017 and increase from the same period last year. what does this uptick in the security incidents tell us about the security situation overall and how are we shaping our strategy going forward in light of these particular figures? you can answer that quickly, time has elapsed. >> sure. will tell you i don't think any of us are satisfied where security in afghanistan has been in 2016 and 2017 although 2017 is slightly better than 2016. the reason why we believe those incidents have occurred because the afghan forces haven't had the wherewithal for their mission. we focused where they have fallen short of the mark and security aviation and level needed. >> thank you. >> mr. chairman, secretary mattis and general dunford thank you for joi