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40,000 is inexcusable. why are they still on the books? weve known about them for a long time. well, the army knows how difficult it is to keep people and retention is not very high. a lot of people leave because they are disgusted with service in the army or the marines for other kinds of reasons, or the navy and air force. i focus on the ground force because when you start to look at the numbers available that you could put on the ground in europe right now to quote unquote deter the russians,...

Places like syria, afghanistan, iraq. so we have to approach it cautiously, but we have some large numbers that we can .2. the first thing to understand is the reason that i became so concerned about eliminating sailors, marines, and eventually soldiers, airmen, who are otherwise healthy, capable, well-trained, proficient, competent, in their profession, is simply because we dont have that many people in the united states from which to recruit m right now. only about 30% of americans between the...

Go in with less than a full complement. 40,000 is inexcusable. why are they still on the books? weve known about them for a long time. well, the army knows how difficult it is to keep people and retention ise not very hig. a lot of people leave because they are disgusted with service in the army or the marines for other kinds of reasons, or the navy and air force. i focus on the ground force because when you start to lookou at the numbers available that you could put on the ground in europe righ...

Activates that rapid response force. u.s. troops will fall in on that and they will be part of it. the kinds of capabilities they could bring it will be a ground force were told brigade combat teams. medical, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, logistics, support to help these countries defend against aggression and the aggressor right now is russia in the eyes of the u.s. and nato, of course. it is the idea is that this will be a defensive mission, building up the defenses of these coun...

Combat brigades, essentially a ground force intelligence surveillance reconnaissance, medical, logistics. that sort of thing. helicopters, being able to move people around. possibly even doing more exercises and training with local forces on the ground. what we are waiting for is an announcement from the pentagon on what specific units might be getting these preparation orders, they are trying to notify families, troops and units and once those notifications are complete, the pentagon said it wi...

Said, we could be -- we could be looking at a terrible war, a terrible ground war, where tens of thousands, tens of thousands of ukrainians, military and civilian, and many, many russian soldiers will die. so this is what were -- this is what were looking at right now, and its up to mr. putin. >> i mean, as you said, the president says what putin could do could depend on what side of the bed he gets up on in the morning which is pretty alarming. i want to listen to what retired u.s. army lieuten...

Indefinitely. >> what are the capabilities of the ukrainian forces? i read theyve improved a lot over the last several years. and obviously, the u.s. and others have been sending over javelins and other more high-tech weaponry. what would a fight look like? >> well, i was listening to clarissas report earlier. shes right there in those trenches. she has a feel for what it looks like in that particular segment. but ukrainian armed forces have improved significantly since 2014. the united states, ...

I read theyve improved a lot over the last several years. and obviously, the u.s. and others have been sending over javelins and other more high-tech weaponry. what would a fight look like? >> well, i was listening to clarissas report earlier. shes right there in those trenches. she has a feel for what it looks like in that particular segment. but ukrainian armed forces have improved significantly since 2014. the united states, canada, uk, weve been working with them and frequently, my soldiers ...

Look like. lets watch. >> if there is a military invasion of ukraine by russia, its likely to begin with a significant barrage of missiles and bomb attacks. those are never as precise as the army, any army would like them to be and we dont even know how precise the russian army would like them to bes so incident civilians could be killed regardless of their nationality. then followed by an onslaught of a ground force moving across the ukrainian frontier, again, innocent civilians caught in the c...

Russian military build—up and what the ukrainians and ukraines native supporters have at their disposal in eastern europe? the supporters have at their disposal in eastern europe?— eastern europe? the fact of the matter is the — eastern europe? the fact of the matter is the ukraine _ eastern europe? the fact of the matter is the ukraine armed . eastern europe? the fact of the - matter is the ukraine armed forces are tenacious, docketed well—trained but they are not on par with the russia...