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Militarily that it s making a difference. tonight bring up something that the president has talked about, military authorizing a. can we go to that right now? i m going to ask the team to pop up that for us. greatest military in the world and we have given them total authorization, that s what they re doing. frankly, that s why they ve been so successful lately. harris: with the seconds we have left, i want to ask you about your thoughts on that. the president giving more power to the military. well, president obama took power away from the military that was used to having. micromanaged airstrikes out of the white house, other tactical operations out of the white house, three secretaries of defense were totally frustrated by it. what president trump has done, if you re an operational commander in iraq, in afghanistan, running forces in syria, conducting operations out of djibouti. i ve given that you authority, so go out and do it, you don t ask for permission from us. ....
It could be hard to recruit. it lets everybody knows to include our adversaries the quick reactions of those in the field is picked up considerably because you don t have to run things by the white house before you decide what you ll have for lunch. shannon: i know personally some really good folks who left the military over the last couple of years because they felt like it was a morale issue that they were being micromanaged. any decision or choice they tried to make was triple second guessed and they left and went into the private sector. do you think we can make up a lot of what s happened to our military in the last eight years? yes, the best part of the military are the soldiers that serve. it is hard to replace combat experience and the idea of keeping good ncos and good junior officers in the service is not just a good idea from a recruiting perspective, it makes you more combat effective. ....
Groups being equipped by the central intelligence agency. those are the ones that in the last week subject of a lot of rush why s air strikes and one of the reasons why the u.s. says that rush why s not trying to degrade isis or to defeat the terrorist group. what they re trying to do is prop up assad. how? destroying the rebel groups that have been holding their own with the backing of american and arab allies sending weapons and money to those group ice if we don t have the pentagon program anymore and we ve got a cia program that maybe a weakened by rush why s moves, what does the u.s. have? a mess. syria is a mess. i have spoken to members of the syrian opposition and expressed tremendous amount of frustration and because it was mishandled, micromanaged by the white house. the pentagon wasn t able to do what a lot of syrian opposition rebel groups were asking it to do, focus the fight on assad, not isis and it s really created layers with the russians of ....
Airstrikes are doing a magnificent job on a personally and at a unit level. they re doing everything they can but they re being con stranded by particularly ownerrous rules of engagement that are reducing our able to have an effect our ability in having an effect to deconstruct the islamic state. you say the pilots are being micromanaged. what are the higher-ups worried about? we re worried we re tired of this politically correct stuff on our own soil. the rules of engagement, we have the enemy they re in thundershower sights you. dent sit there and witness but you say because of micromanagement it s taking so long it s almost a worthless effort. notice at other a worthless effort. once again the attacks that are being conducted are very effective. however, what is restricting and holding back the application of america s asymmetric advantage our air power are onerous rules ....
i think there s general consensus in our own forces and the coalition partners that anything anyone does to counter isil is in the main a good outcome. in other words, the activities of the iranians to support for the iraqi security forces is a positive thing in military terms against isil. but we are all concerned about what happens after the drums stop beating. so a change in tone, and a now a change in communication, dana. i like the new defense secretary ash carter and i feel like he s the right defense secretary at the right time. i hope like the previous defense secretaries that left and complained that they were micromanaged, that they will listen to him. at this moment, he seems quite independent and able to be clear-eyed about the situation and identifying the problems and ....