Gen. John Nicholson, the leader of the fight in Afghanistan, said Friday that the “stalemate” in the country means the fight has reached an equilibrium where the Afghan government controls the majority of land.

Nicholson, who spoke with reporters at the Pentagon during a visit to Washington, was responding to remarks by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford at the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday in which he characterized the Afghanistan mission as “roughly a stalemate.”