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Up for some of their losses by bringing troops, for instance, they have in georgia and bringing them into the fight. we are watching that closely, too, but it is very apparent to us that the russians know that manpower is going to be a factor for them. they are losing soldiers every single day. as i said to admiral stavridis, they're still having unit cohesion problems that are amplifying the problems they're having on the ground. >> pentagon press secretary, retired rear admiral john kirby. as always, it is great to have you on. thank you for your insight. >> thank you. >> we hope to hear bac...

Their own vehicles so that they would runcl out of fuel and note able to replace that fuel, and we know that they have had morale and unit cohesion problems, born, we think, largely out of the fact that it's a con script force, draftees,rc young men who in ma cases had no idea that they were going to be invading another country. they thought they were going on a training exercise am and they clearly weren't fully prepared and ready for actual combat. so we know they're having problems like that. they're also having leadership issues. command and control. not only the ability of their generals ...

These systems in the field. that's getting lost a lot in the discussion. i think also they have had significant logistics and sustainment problems. they are still having fuel problems. they're having trouble feeding their troops. definitely they did not plan for a very dynamic way of sustaining their efforts on the ground. number five here is they aren't operating jointly. they don't coordinate between air and ground and maritime the way we do in the united states military, and so we're picking up lots of tensions between commanders because they're not talking with one another, they're not coo...