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Deployed, and the remainder have been cobbled together. you have a number of losses in each one of these battalion forces and then they try to bring a bunch of folks that have never trained together, never worked together, there is no readiness that's really associated with those numbers. so you might want to talk about the numbers, but they don't have the readiness level in order to be effective. so certainly russia needs to learn, they need to adapt, but i don't think we're going to see the lessons being applied into this fight. >> james spider marks, always a pleasure to see you. >> thank y...

Battalion forces in that area, the ukrainians will really fight well and really do extremely well as they demonstrated before. but the numbers are on the side of the russians. and this is just the nasty open terrain. a lot of maneuver. again, a lot of conventional fighting which means we're going to see a lot of casualties. >> is the russian focus on the east and the south a short-term goal for russia, or do you think that could be the end game? >> the latter. no, no, i apologize. it's not the end game. my apologies. what it is the start. this is the first step in a much longer engagement. in ...

The battalion forces. that's where the rubber meets the road and afghans are losing dozens per month. embedding at the battalion level does not meet the threshold of the u.n. definition of mercenary. they would be attached as long-term trainer advisers. >> are they military employees of the united states or people that -- they are contractors? >> military employees of the afghan government. imagine them as a skeletal structure to all of those afghan battalions so it works reliably. they need air power. the maintenance and training has been a failure. they need government support and mentor sup...