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A lot of these old school skills still needed in times of hybrid warfare and cyber attacks as a result after the ukraine crisis we saw that it is more important to change back from stability operations to hire tens of thousands of what we see and as an interest to move larger formations and heavy equipment and that's had not been trained and done with within the last ten years far from the russian border germany has set up its operational headquarters in the norwegian hinterlands together with troops from france the netherlands belgium and. germany alone has brought ten thousand soldiers up he...

Didn't answer that question. kevin, what's likely to be the role? what are the limitations of using federal troops on u.s. soil? >> the likely role is no secret. a lot of it is, you know, isr, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance. which means drones and watching the horizon, perhaps some satellite technology. don't think of a line of troops or a line of vehicles or tanks that are going to protect the physical border. limitations are posse comitatus. a lot of admirals and generals have gone on tv saying that. look, troops are trained to kill, to go into combat. some are trained to do stab...

Active duty soldiers which the army had planned to reduce to 490,000. however, the strategic choices in management review and the qdr both determined that since we are no longer sizing the force for prolonged stability operations, an army of this size is larger than required to meet the demandings of our defense strategy. given the reduced budgets it is also larger than we can afford to modernize and keep ready. we have decided to further reduce active army duty strength to a range of 440 to 450 soldier. >> here with exclusive reaction, former vice president dick cheney, good to talk to you. >...

Now, the thought was to kit fat and tailer changes to highlight smaller, elite operation. many worry it has gone into the muscle and bone. cnn's pentagon correspondent barbara star has more. >> good morning, chris. the pentagon was going to ask congress for 5$541 billion in spending. now they're going to ask for just 496 billion. chuck hagel is making one thing clear. nearly 13 years of war footing is over. >> after iraq and afghanistan, we are no longer sizing the military to conduct long and large stability operations. >> it will now focus more on special operations, cyber war and high tech ...

Surge, he was concluding privately that he can't change afghanistan and he began setting deadlines to pull out and a big debate about whether publicly setting deadline was a good idea. in fact, i describe in here one day when henry kissinger comes in to the state department and sits down with people doing negotiations for the taliban and says be careful about thinking that you can negotiate with people when have you already told them you are leaving. he try thad with vietnam and it didn't work out so well. but the second big transition that president obama went through, the discovery that the ...