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Big factor here. there's a huge motivation gap. what motivates the average russian soldier? he's in somebody else's country for what purpose? people have to be fighting for something. and you can go back to napoleon to find out how moral is to material, 3 to 1. in other words, you can have a huge advantage in troop size, arms, but if you're on the rising side of the moral equation, you're in about place. and then there's another factor that is important, and that is the structure of russian military. it's very different from that of the american military. they have no non commissioned officers...

And motivation becomes a really big factor here. there's a huge motivation gap. what motivates the average russian soldier? he's in somebody else's country for what purpose? people have to be fighting for something. and you can go back to napoleon to find out how morale is to material three to one. in other words, you can have a huge advantage in troop size and arms, but if you're on the wrong side of that morale equation, you're in a bad place. and there's another factor that's very important, and that's the structure of the russian military. that's very different of the american military, th...

The price of going on the supreme court, it is simply not worth it. >> well, nancy cook, yeah, that's an interesting comparison. a lot of people have been looking at those parallels from 1991 clarence thomas and anita hill to today. the theme there was clarence thomas was successful in rallying political support from the people he needed to rally it from to rescue his nomination. in thomas' case in '91 politically what seemed to save him was the support from black vote ners in polls. when they looked at those polls. looking at this one politically, what i'm struck by is after that presentation...