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The Marine Corps expects to break ground on a state-of-the-art wargaming center in 2021 January 11 Marines with 3rd Marine Division play a game of Memoir 44’ on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan. But something a little more advanced is in store as the Corps expects to break ground on a wargaming center at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, in 2021 (Cpl. Timothy Hernandez/Marine Corps) Nearly four years after Marine officials announced the Corps wanted a state-of-the art, advanced wargaming center near the service’s headquarters, the service expects to break ground on the Quantico, Virgi...

>> neil: this is new audio coming in of the seizure of the british pinker about ten days ago. obviously you could say despite the warnings and stern rebuke from the british warship nearby, they did it anyway. still held that ship and the men on that ship. retired colonel david hunt. what do you think? >> i'm very impressed with the stern warning from a british warship. this is piracy, plain and simpl simple. the helicopter landed those commandos and probably the worst execution of ever seen, should've been blown out of the sky. england is a great country. they have a small but great military. ...

Statements was that you had fears for law-abiding war fighters. >> absolutely and that is something that has been a long-standing problem about the divide between attorneys in the military and the operating forces. when our men and women deploy they need to have confidence that what they do in combat we will back them up and if they make a mistake we are not going to just have in cis go crazy and try to put them in jail the rest of their lives. this case only deepened the divide by showing these forces if you make a decision in combat that we disagree with or there is a political reason we are...

Detachment, not special operating forces, but the ones that do the train and equip will want to be among the people. they don't want the armor between them and the soldiers they're advising. 12 soldiers coordinating with battalions of africans, they literally have battalions of niger soldiers. that up armored approach we've seen in iraq and afghanistan doesn't work in these environment environments. when you're talking about comparing this to iraq and afghanistan. you've got to remember there are 54 different countries in africa and each one has a different terrorism challenge. and there are a...

Peninsula, our operating forces in the area have looked very closely at the specifics of having to attack should would he be given the word to do so. this is not a drill. this is very serious. and china has to step up and help us put pressure on north korea. >> bret: last thing. if you were to put a percentage on it tonight that we are engaged in some military action in north korea. admiral, first to you. >> well, the last time you asked me that question i said it was below 50% for a nuclear engagement. i have got to say that it's up around 60, 75%, probably because of the mistakes that can ha...