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Heels, shaking alliances and raising questions about them, saying negative things about nato, then saying great things about nato that what has happened in alliances is hes injected doubt in our most critical alliances around the world. if you are a war planner or thinking about scenarios or simulations of your dark days and whether the united states is with you or not, those countries need to begin to think, what if the united states is not there in donald trump has done devastating damage to a...

After. >> you think about back to -- was can colin powell you break it you buy it. replacing bashar assad what comes in his wake and given the fractures in the country it is a complex chess board. >> we have not said anything i dont think and it shouldnt be part of the planning. it might be. i dont know. that were talking about a regime -- a head of the regime strike. i would doubt that would be part of the target list to go after assad in his palace, but heres the thing. i was as a brand new ge...

Liberated village of hud. shes happy, said a man pushing his 80-year-old grandmother. shes happy to see the soldiers. then why were these people carrying white flags and leaving their village? because iraqi troops in their rush to get to mosul have moved on, even though villagers say there are still isis fighters here. and what we saw next was a war planners worst nightmare. entering this sunni village were shiite militias. in a country thats seen civil war between these two sects of islam, its ...

Yemen or even libya, but then moving forward, how are voters to digest this information? whats the information theyed need to hear from candidates? >> yeah. this is a very important issue. and first of all, i want to say that i dont agree completely with tony that secretary clinton can be blamed for the removal of cagadhafi in libya. i think there were many, many factors that contributed to that. what id like to say is early on in the iraq war, yes, the military was given a mission, and truthful...

>> daunting statement. lets talk more about it. joining me now from orlando, cnn military analyst, retired lieutenant general mark hertling. we saw after the provocative event in texas, home-grown terror is real. how do you fight it without stepping on basic freedoms? >> thats the toughest question we are going to face and i think mr. ridges statement is absolutely correct. but i would like to just comment on that because remember on 9/11 i was a war planner in the pentagon on 9/11 and very few ...

Dmz as in various capacities, assistant division commander, battalion commander and war planner. i understand as most people what the north korean mostives are and what the real nature the threat from north korea. we think the greatest threat of missiles that launch nuclear weapons. in fact the great threat as you may know, jenna, is the 5,000 artillery pieces they have aimed at seoul right now and 1.2 million man army that has something like 5000 tanks. so the north koreans have a very serious ...