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>> bill: also the debate that has everybody taking sides, while some restaurants let kids eat free, one restaurant is letting kids eat free from kids. no children allowed, people who want to dine in peace. some parents say its a slap in the face. well take you there coming up this hour. >> jacqui: welcome back as "america reports" rolls into the second hour, jacqui heinrich in washington. bill, good to be with you. >> bill: nice to see you, jacqui. sandra and john have the day off. fir...

Plenty more from the situation in the middle east, but we will pause and get an update on the sport. Defending champions england have suffered a shock defeat at the cricket world cup, losing in delhi to afghanistan who in turn have registered the most significant one day win in their history. Afghanistan batted first and after an opening stand of 108, eventually made 284 a total that proved too much for the holders. England lost wickets regularly throughout the chase. And were bowled out for 215...

to flee to for safety, earlier in the conflict. hospitals say theyre overwhelmed with new arrivals. the world health organization says its been told by israel to move medical supplies out of two warehouses in southern gaza within 2a hours — although israel has denied this. these pictures show explosions in gaza on monday evening. a spokesman for the un childrens charity, unicef, says theres simply nowhere safe for people to go. all this comes as the us state department says its too e...

In August of 2023, U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) updated its 2021 study, "Breaking Barriers: Women in Army Special Operations."1 According to an Army News Service article, the study "outlined 42 recommendations... to better address obstacles facing female Soldiers serving in special operations units and to retain its top talent," and its "findings will guide USASOC in optimizing female warfighters while noting their physical and anatomical differences.&qu...

In August of 2023, U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) updated its 2021 study, "Breaking Barriers: Women in Army Special Operations."1 According to an Army News Service article, the study "outlined 42 recommendations... to better address obstacles facing female Soldiers serving in special operations units and to retain its top talent," and its "findings will guide USASOC in optimizing female warfighters while noting their physical and anatomical differences.&qu...

Basically indiscriminate fire. i think what is important to realize is get back to the bigger map, when we start looking at kyiv and we will do that in a little more detail. this is where the russian forces are really going to dbeing down. this is where they hit this viscous, very difficult area to achieve any movement at all. just think of any type urban combat, that type of human terrain is incredibly difficult to try to achieve some success. here is the -- um -- here is the image that you wer...

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Look, were only doing a fraction of what we should be doing. we need more, much more. more intelligence, more people, more understanding. >> during the next two years, flynn undertakes the reinvention of how american forces gather, analyze and execute intelligence in combat. >> you kill one of these guys, they are totally replaceable is what he realized. you have to go after the information first. if that means trying to keep the person alive and taking more risk, he was willing to do that. >> f...

The human terrain, all those kinds of features of places like afghanistan and syria, youre going to lose out. thats a real danger here. >> i want to play one more thing, something else the president said, when he was speaking to the troops about the syria withdrawal. lets play that. >> there will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria. very deliberate, very orderly. while maintaining the u.s. presence in iraq to prevent an isis resurgence and to protect u.s. inte...

Thats another component of intelligence, which is the human aspect, the human terrain of understanding your opposition. general flynn did that very, very well. >> flynn tackles the critical turnaround time it takes to analyze intel and put it to use. >> he set up a system where they were analyzing it instantaneously. it might be a telephone number or e-mail that would lead them to the next house and to the next house. they would repeat that process. they were doing in some cases dozens of raids ...