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That joke from the president in 1984, it started in motion a series of events that put nucle nuclear-armed warships and military command units in a state of confusion and in some cases a state of alert. ultimately nobody shot anyone and the alerts got dialed back, but phew. the president's talking about nuclear weapons is nothing to mess around with, not even if you're obviously joking.s talki nuclear weapons is nothing to mess around with, not even if you're obviously joking. yesterday just before noon, apropos of we don't know yet what, the president-elect announced via twitter what appears ...

Defining strategy of the obama era is heavy use of special forces, the rise of targeted killing, all this has really depended on special forces. what is the white house thinking they're going to do with these military advisers? >> the plan is twofold and to the extent we can call it a plan is somewhat of a term we're going to use rather loosely. the first thing they're going to do, we understand from where they're going. they're going to go to baghdad. they're going to embed with essentially high-level iraqi military command units and they're going to essentially format the defense of baghdad....

Decade, and we're now starting to see major issues at home. these guys are doing sometimes 10, 12 back-to-back-to-back deployments. >> wow. >> and it's taking its toll. >> it does seem in this era, spencer, that in the obama era, if there's one central -- if the defining strategy of the obama era is heavy use of special forces, the rise of targeted killing, all this has really depended on special forces. what is the white house thinking they're going to do with these military advisers? >> the plan is twofold and to the extent we can call it a plan is somewhat of a term we're going to use rathe...

They're going to go to baghdad. they're going to embed with essentially high-level iraqi military command units and they're going to essentially format the defense of baghdad. that's really looking to be primarily what they're going to do and as well sort of look so see what the else the iraqi military needs. open question. if the u.s. military could not over 12 years adequately prepare the iraqi military for a threat like this, what are we really going to do this time around? second thing they're going to do is collect situational intelligence, possibly northern iraq as well to spot for air s...

A message alerting soviet forces in that area that a state of war existed between the united states and the soviet union. >> within 30 minutes the mysterious soviet alert was canceled. >> so within 30 minutes the soviet alert, the soviet alert that said there was an active state of war between the soviets and the united states, that alert was ultimately canceled after it had been issued, but that joke from the president in 1984, it started in motion a series of events that put nuclear-armed warships and military command units in a state of confusion and in some cases a state of alert. ultimate...