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Experience in places like iraq and afghanistan has taught the british army that entering a building in a conflict zone can be extremely dangerous. i know ive got great faith - in my team because were all highly trained professionals. im basically trusting the man- in front of me and the man behind me to do a job at a very high level. colchester in essex is home to the elite 16 air assault brigade, the british armys global response force, specially trained and equipped to deploy by parachute heli...

Is home to the elite 16 air assault brigade, the british armys global response force, specially trained and equipped to deploy by parachute helicopter and air landing. ready to be sent anywhere in the world at a moments notice and able to perform a wide variety of roles from war fighting to providing humanitarian assistance. as a result, the troops here, like the soldiers of two para, are constantly training. british military training adapts to new threats all of the time. this might look like a...

Sevastopol. zwitterion presence in ukraine, or at least ukrainians believe it, to still be ukraine. so festival is the capital of crimea. it is the russian naval base. it is a part of the main reason that russia ever wanted crimea. does that mark to the beginning of something, or is this just another attack in a long war? >> i think it is a condition setting attack. what is most notable about this is of course an impact on russias war fighting capabilities and the ability to fuel ships that have...

Have access to these kind of materials that are available to anybody who has a security clearance at the correct level, and you know, access to the to the relevant, you know, source where there was a back briefing book or the like. and so were not sure exactly where these documents came from. im sure the hunt is on right now, both in the intelligence community and the justice department to figure that out. but what we do know is some of these materials christine were created as part of the analy...

So this is about industrial capacity. this is about getting america back to making things again, turning wrenches, bending steel and bringing our supply chains home from china that were gutted with nafta and with allowing them into the world trade organization. we have to bring them back home or the western hemisphere and the republican majority is determined to do this. we have to get our military back to war fighting, focused on winning our nations war, being the best of the best because i gua...

Kabul airport, heartbreaking to this day and demanding so many answers. >> we will keep driving for accountability for the gold star families, sandra. thank you so much. >> sandra: appreciate you joining us, thank you. >> john: we are going to talk more about this coming up over the course of the next couple of hours. jeremy hunt, former intelligence officer, one-time candidate for congress, will join us to talk about the fact he doesnt believe the u.s. military is ready t fight against a major ...

The world stage. ivan watson, thank you so much. nic robertson, thank you as well. joining me now to continue this conversation cnns political and national security analyst and "new york times" correspondent david sanger and retired army brigadier general steve anderson. general anderson, i want to start with you where i just left off with nic, about how this impacts the war in ukraine. obviously these allegations as it relates to the children are very serious but putin is clearly accused of muc...

Half of whats called undergraduate pilot training when they first come into the air force and first get their commissions. and after that they specialize in their particular air frames. most of the pilots that are flying the f-22 have flown another airplane before that. so they would have had experience with another type of airplane, but the types of skills they acquire in these kinds of situations are then honed in places like an air force base in nevada where they have the fighter weapons scho...

Nevada where they have the fighter weapons school. and so these kinds of tactics are really essential not only to war fighting but to really precise operational flight and the targeting piece of this from the pilot, the weapon, the sideliner missile in this case to the actual target. that really speaks to the precision that is very evident in these cases, and it speaks to the precision of the u.s. weapons systems that are available to us. >> and cedric leighton also noted how rare instances of s...

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