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Correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, what is the defense secretary, ash carter, planning on doing? >> reporter: good evening, wolf. well, pentagon officials will tell you this carter plan begins with white house dissatisfaction with the campaign in syria and iraq. the white house wanting to see more action, so ash carter's come up with a plan, which he pretty much presented today on capitol hill. more air strikes, but much more significant, perhaps, ground action, direct action. that means u.s. special operations forces on the ground in iraq and potentially in syria. let's get right to it. h...

Are within 20 miles of a russian jet. not that they think that the russians are going to aggressively shoot them down. but the russians are very unpredictable in their flying practices. and this is an effort the pentagon says to absolutely make sure u.s. pilots are kept safe. so russian pilots coming close to u.s. fighter jets. russian pilots also coming close to u.s. drones flying over syria. also another concern, obviously, those unmanned drones. all of this coming as russia also stepping up its naval strikes. it's ground action. something the u.s. intelligence community is watching very car...

Moved artillery and rocket launchers on the ground also into western syria. u.s. officials tell me that now they are beginning to see the russians fire those weapons in support of syrian ground action. so the russians and the syrians very much linked up in their ground campaign in western syria. where does this leave the united states? no indication of a change in u.s. military strategy. the u.s. still going after isis targets. but a lot of concern. you know, where does it go from here? because every day the pentagon is seeing the russians take one more step forward. ana. >> barbara starr, kee...

Airstrikes against isis. but this comes as russia seems to be stepping up its combat action and its combat power almost every day. now today we are learning that the russians have begun naval strikes into syria. they moved four warships into the southern caspian sea to the east. that put them within range of syria and by all accounts, they are using some very high-tech missiles off those ships to strike targets. nobody at the pentagon can really recall the last time the russian navy was in combat in this way. in addition, u.s. -- pardon me, russian ground units in combat in western syria now. ...

Following the story. i understand russia is not just attacking from the air but from the water now as well. >> indeed ana. good morning. the defense secretary went on to say that the u.s. military would not be cooperating with the russian military because of what the russians are doing. carter wants to have a second round of technical talks with the russians about keeping that air space safe when they are bloet flying so there is no inadvertent accidents but not military cooperation. why is he saying this? well today the russians said that they are beginning naval attacks from the caspian sea ...