has realized that they are fighting guys from the future

[Tara2]

Can you please explain the bold part?

Despite the fact...we have markedly increased our operational intensity...we're not seeing any progress. What we're dealing with here...is potentially a global conflagration...that requires constant diligence in order to suppress. Now, you see...because our enemy...has realized that they are fighting guys from the future.
Now, ahem, it is brilliant as it is infuriating. If you live like it's the past, and you behave like it's the past...
..then guys from the future find it very hard to see you. If you throw away your cell phone, shut down your e-mail...
...pass all your instructions face-to-face, hand-to-hand...
...turn your back on technology and just disappear into the crowd...
No flags. No uniforms.
You got your basic grunts on the ground there.
Body of lies, movie

 

[emsr2d2]

Thanks for editing the post. Now please provide the source and author.

 

[Tara2]

Thanks for editing the post. Now please provide the source and author.

I've written the source. It's from the movie "body of lies".

 

[GoesStation]

I've written the source. It's from the movie "Body of Lies".

The dialog is in a telegraphic style that leaves out a lot of words. I think the first bold word, "now", refers to when the characters have to exert "constant diligence". They have to do it immediately because of what the enemy has realized.

 

[emsr2d2]

Are you sure it's the bold part that's confusing you? That part seems fairly self-explanatory to me.

 

[GoesStation]

Are you sure it's the bold part that's confusing you? That part seems fairly self-explanatory to me.

Oh, yes. I see I mentally bolded the first part of the sentence, which looked potentially very confusing to me.

 

[Tara2]

Are you sure it's the bold part that's confusing you? That part seems fairly self-explanatory to me.

I don't understand most of ALL the text. What does they mean by "guys from the future", please?

 

[GoesStation]

I don't understand [STRIKE]most[/STRIKE] much of ALL the text. What [STRIKE]does[/STRIKE] do they mean by "guys from the future", please?

Men who have traveled in time from the future.

 

[emsr2d2]

Do people travel in time in the movie?

 

[Tara2]

I think the movie isn't about travel in time. It's about a CIA case officer in Iraq, tracking a terrorist called Al-Saleem (Alon Abutbul). The movie starts with that text that I wrote.

 

[jutfrank]

I haven't seen this film but I suspect the speaker means to say that the group of which he is a part (possibly the CIA?) is much more technologically advanced than the enemy. That is the sense in which they are 'from the future'.

This is a just a guess. We need more context to know for sure.

 

[Tara2]

I haven't seen this film but I suspect the speaker means to say that the group of which he is a part (possibly the CIA?) is much more technologically advanced than the enemy. That is the sense in which they are 'from the future'.

This is a just a guess. We need more context to know for sure.

Yes, this makes sense.

Can you please explain "You got your basic grunts on the ground there." too?

 

[jutfrank]

A grunt is a low-rank soldier and on the ground means 'in the field of operations', i.e., in the cities or villages where the fighting is taking place.