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News pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski. mik, what can you tell us about the incident involving that french fighter jet? >> reporter: u.s. military officials cant tell us very much. earlier today, members of that coalition on the american side said they had no evidence that there was a plane in the air or of any poe sentential shoot-dow. as we find out from the french, one of their war fighting planes had apparently detected this airplane in the sky. it had landed on the airstrip at misrat...

Against him . there will be a gradual escalation of military operations as we move forward and i think the fabric of his political support will break down further. >> there are suggestions that the u.s. is taking the lead because of our technological capabilities ins the cruise missiles et cetera and after a few days we might back away and let the british and french do the war fighting, , you agree? >>s i think that is what is said. clearly the president of france is a leader in putting this coa...

With iraq and afghanistan, and, also, allowing secretary gates to continue the work of changing the culture within the pentagon, moving it away from the sort of cold war mentality he inherited to a certain degree, to much more rapid-fire counterinsurgency tragedy, not only in the way the pentagon thinks about war-fighting but the promotion of colonels to big dear generals and the kind -- brigadier jerges and the kigene culture, and, whether all of that will be accomplished by the time he leaves ...

>> well, dave, i dont think anybody in the town would disagree with daves point. we have a very top heavy bureaucracy. we have too many staffs and mr. gates is right in that. i have concerns. hundred billion he would save would woined up in buying weapons for the troops. i have been in the town many yores and i am skeptecal that congress would allow that to be pent on weapons. joint forces command is top heavy but performs several key war fighting. joint concepts and train work aiming and every ...

The report finds an insufficient focus on war fighting. what other purpose is there for the united states military? a leadership that is distracted to bureaucratic excess. it was commissioned by these four lawmakers and includes stunning admissions with one senior leader saying i guarantee you every unit in the navy is up to speed on diversity training. i cant say the same about ship handling, this is from an active duty lieutenant. sometimes we care if we will have more diversity officers than ...

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Like the course theyve been taking two thirds of the bavarian voters actually say they prefer the chancellors approach so thats another reason i think they may have an interest in backing i mean thats a very important point lets zoom out for a minute because this is not just a story of politico survival what will this mean for the people fleeing war fighting violence it means basically that europe has got a step closer to becoming fortress europe if we look at the different aspects of the deal t...

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