BBCNEWS BBC News September 19, 2021 04:17:00
I've been speaking to mikey kay, a former senior raf officer who served in afghanistan. i asked him how he thought the americans made such a deadly mistake. i used to be part of the kill chain, which is military parlance for the precision air strikes process. and that precision air strikes process takes a lot of time, energy and resource into figuring out collateral damage estimate, understanding what weapon and fuse selection will be required, looking at all of the intelligence that leads up to what's called the pid, which is the positive identification of the target. that is imint, which is ...