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We're giving them 40,000. that's a high number. that puts our military at risk. so let's say they're actually at a 50,000 round a month attrition rate with their rounds. that means they exhaust their ammunition in ten months. if you're the defense minister of ukraine, that's too short a timeline. something has to change. this number has to improve or we need to find more artillery rounds. >> let's talk about the tanks, the mod terern tanks ukraine is asking for and the u.s. doesn't think is practical to send. why the disconnect? >> they would be difference makers no question about it. especial...

Budget resolution that cuts defense. i think where people that are on the more hawkish side of the equation need to do a better job, however, is explaining how we're going ensure that every dollar we spend on defense goes towards hard power, goes towards enhancing war fighting capable and doesn't go towards an ever more bloated pentagon bureaucracy how do we get our tooth to tail ratio what it is called in better balance and figure out how we put hard power in particular west of the international dateline. i guess in other words how do we make sure that the failure of deterrence that we saw in...

What's called the tooth to tail ratio. of that 200,000 probably mow more than 65 to 70,000 forces are available to try to control key objectives in ukraine. it's not going to happen. if you had the entire 60,000 forces in kyiv working this type of outward in, you might have some degree of success, but just think about it in terms we can understand. the new york city police department is in the vicinity of 50,000. how much challenge -- how many challenges do they have trying to maintain law and order and control in a city of 3 million here? i mean it's an approximation that makes sense. urban f...

Called a tooth to tail ratio. in other words, the representative logistical support that they needed in order to execute this. they need the chinese to step in and fill the breach. >> colonel, every day it seems like we're seeing more and more strikes near kyiv. how is the ukraine military holding up some 20 days in here? >> well, they're doing much better, laura, than we expected them to. what we're seeing is a very determined resistance. historically it reminds you what the finns were able to do in 1939, 1940 against the old soviet union when they held off a much larger soviet army moving in...

With regard to reorganization, let's not forget john brennan also embarked on a reorganization about two years ago. it had some morale issues inside the agency but you're looking at the president-elect saying maybe we need to go through that process again. reorganizations in any organization, there is a personnel price to pay, there is a morale price to pay. i agree with bob nobody's going to disagree more people in the field, more opera tichs in the field, that's always a good thing. but there is an important tooth to tail ratio supporting though operations and political stuff that goes on. w...