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U.s. launched a couple of them off to show their capabilities and it is quite dramatic. the ability to penetrate through rock. they are a very strong, offensive capability. so, the u.s. military and conjunction with its allies in the area is really always ready. locked and loaded for any kind of a north korean threat, hallie. >> courtney live for us at the pentagon. thank you very much. with me, chad sweep and chief of staff from the department of ohomeland security under george w. bush and my...

And that leaves only then the offensive capability or the deterrent. i would just suggest to you that shannon, there is a moment in the life of nearly every problem like this when it is big enough for reasonable people to see and still small enough to be addressed without catastrophe. and bill clinton missed that moment when he made a deal with the koreans that didnt last very long. he paid the ran some. didnt secure the hostage. barack obama did essentially the same thing. gave them a quarter m...

And thats something you hear in this building because theres an ability to retaliate. a lot of the talk about cyber is on the deterrent side. frankly, this sort of shrugging on the shoulders of what do you do if someone attacks back. a lot of the infrastructure, a federal system, it isnt as secure as a lot of folks here would like it to be. >> evan, you were in the cia. what do you do? >> i think its about mostly sanctions. what hans said about cyber attacks is true. i think we need a robust off...

Broken, has come into focus by looking hard enough at what is out there in open sources. so one last point, as the fbi and congressional investigations and journalists continue to authenticate and flesh out just how much russia did, just exactly what russia did to us last year and as we continue to get more information about contacts between trump campaign people and the russias during the time that the attack was under way despite the fact that the trump campaign denied it all these months. as ...

And journalists continue to authenticate and flesh out just how much russia did, just exactly what russia did to us last year and as we continue to get more information about contacts between trump campaign people and the russias during the time that the attack was under way despite the fact that the trump campaign denied it all these months. as the pieces are falling into place, its worth looking at the way the russians talk about this themselves, because they are proud of their capability in t...

Way the russians talk about this themselves, because they are proud of their capability in this regard. they did have a putin senior adviser last february threaten in public that the united states was about to be humbled and brought down to an equal footing with russia by a new offensive capability and information warfare that the russian military was about to unleash against us. they really did do that. they got out in public and po d pounded their chest about it. also, their equivalent of the ...

The capacity to go and take the fight on the street and counter isis offensive capability. the secretary of defense made this comment a year ago after two iraqi divisions collapsed and ran. what weve seen now is that weve seen this year-long process where we will leadreal n the iraqi army are coming to the top and guys who really know how to fight. losers who were just there for political purposes have either been killed or fired and the iraqi forces are showing true military capability now. >> ...

Between the taliban, nato forces, afghan forces in this area for days and the taliban uses these particular areas whether a hospital or school or mosque as a shield. how do you prevent that from happening because that will continue to be a strategy. >> absolutely. again, this happened -- i note this in my book in 2003, the taliban were encouraging the afghan militia to give us the wrong information, thereby describing one of their tribal adversaries. so thats why solid intelligence is so very im...

Artillery and how itsers seized from other places and the iraqi troops, supposed to be a big, organized army, is fighting back with the machine guns mounted on top of the old american humvees. without any air support and thats a very big difference. they -- this unit is still holding up. other units like we have seen out in the west, out in mosul and places where the militants are even stronger, have been completely collapsing. so, the unit we saw, held together. it looks good. theyre able to mo...

Bubt, but its also if you prepare, if you manage your way around it, it doesnt mean that we all have to run around with like chickens with our heads cut off. at the end of the day, the challenge of this space is that theres probably no issue that has become more important than cybersecurity u and though is least understood, whether youre talking about the politicians or the business executives or just you and my role as citizens and consumers. >> you wrote the book on how future wars could be fo...