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Campaign. they hit multiple targets in multiple cities. they even named the campaign resolute storm. the targets they hit are good, military targets all over the area, and the air base where the american special forces were. i have to say, john, i dont think that the saudis have the capability to develop these targets on their own. so i assume theres a lot of intelligence cooperation going on between saudi arabia and the united states. >> colonel, what happens next? thats the big question, the h...

Were making deep personnel cuts, but the overall force structure of our military today. we will soon have the smallest army since world war ii, the smallest navy since world war 1. more pertinent to this discussion, the smallest air force, tactical portion of our air force in the history of the air force. so we see -- what we see now is a chaotic world. youve got putin and separatists in ukraine. youve got the gaza strip. lets not forget to mention islamists establishing a caliphate in iraq and ...

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Tools in order to safeguard security interests. decreasing a defense budget right now is not the way to be doing it. we dont even have a natural security or military strategy that has been done in the last three to four years. therefore, we dont have a baseline by which we can even determine what our true force structure should be and how we should be exercising it. >> i think most of us would look at the overall picture of the defense budget and say theres got to be waste, fraud, duplication. w...

With iran properly, the last thing we want to do is have trouble in east asia. the navy, the military, were moving more of our force structure to the pacific and to a person look, because we realize that china is coming on as a dominant power in the region and it has our allies, with whom we have treaty responsibilities, treaty for protection, in case they are attacked. it has them rather nervous. i have got 15 seconds for you to wrap it. >> do you think that we talked -- we use the word bluster...

Might be preparing? >> well, if you look at the fours structure theyre -- force structure theyre putting together, arthel, it is nine tomahawk missile-firing destroyers, possibly one cruiser, two amphibious assault ships, an aircraft carrier. this is some big muscle. arthel: right. >> the two amphibious assault ships, the kersage, which is a large deck is in the red sea on one side of the suez canal and the san antonio is up in the mediterranean up on the other side of the suez canal, combined t...

The dean of the corebell school. lets talk first of all about this withdraw schedule from afghanistan. some will charge as john mccain and lindsey graham and senator lieberman are, that this was done too hastily, and that it put our troops at risk. your comment about that? >> well, you know, these are some of the same comments made when the bush administration administration was also trying to train up the iraqi army. you know, these training packages are not easy to put together. you know, i kn...

good evening, everyone. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the big scare. with just four days in the congress high tails it out of washingt washington, there was plenty of talk about the looming consequences of the looming fiscal cliff. were talking about tax cuts expiring for everyone automatically, payroll taxes going up, emergency unemployment benefits ending and, of course, the $1.2 trillion in so-called sequestration cuts. about half of that sum is going to come from defense. >>...

there was plenty of talk about the dire consequences of the looming fiscal cliff. were talking about tax cuts expiring for everyone automatically, payroll taxes going up, emergency unemployment benefits ending and, of course, the $1.2 trillion in so-called sequestration cuts. about half of that sum is going to come from defense. >> the obligation of the commander in chief is to act like the commander in chief, and that wld be to prevent these cuts, which in the words of his own secreta...

with four days before congress high-tails it out of washington, there was plenty of talk about the dire consequences of the looming fiscal cliff. were talking about tax cuts expiring for everyone automatically, payroll taxes going up, emergency unemployment benefits ending and, of course, the $1.2 trillion in so-called sequestration cuts. about half of that sum is going to come from defense. >> the obligation of the commander in chief is to act like the commander in chief, and that wou...