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Success for decades. several european nations allow women to fight according to the "washington post." in israel where preparedness and war fighting are critical, women are required to serve in the military as are all men. well over half the soldiers in the israeli defense forces are female. one combat battalion who guards with egypt is 60% female. canada has been allowing women to fight except submarine duty since 1989 and since 2000, they have been allowed to fight on subs as well. canadian wo...

S.e.a.l. training, thats a huge difference. the level of technical abilities and really just the overall physical and stress level goes up tremendously. now, you take ranger school where im hearing from my sources at ranger school that two females that made it through and i quote my sources are beasts. these females are, you know, just amazing women. however, ranger school doesnt even hold a cookie to what s.e.a.l. training is, and to be considered a ranger we need to look at r.a.s.p., so the re...

About that. plus the chairman was there, the vice chairman but a very small select group on that podium. this is all about war fighting. this is a very focused effort by the president at this briefing. you know he kept coming back to the point local forces on the ground are going to be necessary. thats where youre seeing the syrian kurds, the ypg, moving in north of raqqa, as we talked about, being able to give the u.s. more targets on the ground in raqqa to strike maybe making an effort against...

Special ops to say. they need to be at the tip top shape at all times able to not just deal with themselves but the ramifications of someone might be injured or any conceivable thing. what youre seeing is a military right now thats more interested in social engineering let by this president than they are of war fighting. theyre going to erode standard because they want that one female army ranger navy seal so they can put them on a recruiting poster and feel good about themselves. theyre realize...

Obvious? plus, a tangled web of war in the middle east as the u.s. finds itself on both sides of a war fighting alongside iran and iraq but against iran and yemen. what exactly is the u.s. trying to accomplish and is this the best way to go about it. former cia director and nbc east amen mole dean is here to discuss whats going on. that and much more straight ahead on "morning joe." w with the skin of then olay total effects vitamin-enriched. to fight the 7 signs of aging. in 4 weeks skin looks ...

There are benefits from having the high ground there so they can have surveillance of the area that they maybe are about to strike or to pick up intelligence and so it really shouldnt surprise us. this is a very capable force and they are going to use ammet trick capabilities that they can on the cheap in order situational awareness. >> they are far more technologically savvy than they have been in the past. use twitter to gal von nice people. say using drones. my first question when i heard thi...

Nuclear defense and strategy. he under leon panetta and chuck hagel was given a lot of credit for getting that building under control, understanding things like the sequester on the systems. hes a systems guy. ive been in meetings with him. hes tough on iran. hes no apologist for iran, so hes going to be tough on that front. but hes a strategic thinker but hes also given a lot of credit for being -- for understanding how large systems operate. so its not exactly the kind of war-fighting defense ...

Outpace that aspiration. you have these forces and as nic was describing with their sights set on baghdad about that so what can do you in the meantime. and thats the decision the obama administration is faced with thousand. weve talked about air strikes, intelligence sharing. recognizan recognizance, possibility of a u.s. advisory role. with y but each option has its own limitations and dangers. they didnt like air strikes because this doesnt change the dynamic on the ground. good for going aft...

Were looking for. that team has been mostly pulled from libya but the u.s. equipment provided to the libyans to train them, for them to use with the americans has almost all been stolen. we originally were told dozens of weapons. now were being told it is much more, including 23, gmvs. these are up-armored humvee vehicles used in a variety of ways of course, especially for war fighting. they have a 200-mile range or so. highly sensitive equipment. most people are not going to have these type of ...

Him, and we usually agree, but boy, i think youre wrong on this one, charlie. this is about much more than assad and syria. this is about the kind of world we leave to our children and grandchildren. can we really allow the use of chemical weapons to be the new norm of war fighting? its not just the president that laid down the red line. the congress passed the syria accountability act half a dozen years ago and specifically cited the use of chemical weapons and told assad not to use them. we ar...