Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181227:15:31:00
With partners, collecting intelligence, calling in air strikes. can you do it from afar? >> not as well as you can do it the way it is now, no. i can't see the military logic there. look, the reason why those troops are in syria in that number and have been so effective is because isis is now a different beast than it was in 2014-2015. there's not as many of them. many of them have gone to ground. they're doing, conducting smaller type operations, and so having eyes on the ground allows you to better target them. this is what we call time-sensitive targeted, dynamic tarkts, small in number. mo...
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