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Live up to our commitment to nato, should the nato response force be activated by nato. this -- putting our forces on a shorter string enables us to get there in a shorter period of time. and again, i think that provides reassurance to nato that we're ready to live up to our commitments. in terms of what putin thinks and the way he feels about things, again, it's hard to predict. we take those kind of things into consideration. but again, if you look at the forces that he has moved into the region that he continues to move into the region, you know, there was no provocation that caused him to ...

Milley, both of you have been military officers for four decades. you served in the gulf war and iraq and afghanistan after 9/11. you've seen north korea and iran pursue their own nuclear ambitions. i am wondering, does this feel different to you? how would you characterize this crisis with ukraine and russia in terms of its potential to spark a great power conflict? >> well, in terms of whether or not he has enough forces to conduct a full-scale invasion, you heard the chairman say earlier that he's got north of 100,000 troops in the border region. that gives him a number of options. what he'...

Nato's efforts. of course, this is about nato and the alliance. and i would remind you that nato is a defensive alliance. again, you've heard the chairman talk about the resources that nato has. and i think there are considerable resources, and again, it's important to make sure that we keep the alliance united. >> phil, i would echo that the uniform u.s. military is prepared to do whatever we're directed to do. and we are increasing our readiness postures for units and we'll be prepared to execute whatever the president and secretary of defense require of us. with respect to your question abo...

Certainly we have had advisers and trainers there since 2014 as the chairman indicated earlier. and we remain focused on providing all of the assistance in terms of training and advising that ukraine feels it needs. and we work that issue with them on a consistent basis. i would also say that it's all -- it's less about the specific number, but about more about the capability that you bring and what you're focusing on. in some cases, it may take several more types of trainers to do -- to train on a specific event or skill. in other cases, less so. so rest assured that we are in constant commun...