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Advantages they have in terms of numbers, still have not been able to overcome challenges of logistics, command and control, supply, unit cohesion. they re making some progress, but it s not a lot. we re talking about kilometer by kilometer, sometimes street by street, because the alliance and because so many other countries around the world, more than 50 now are sending security assistance to ukraine so they can getter defend themselves. finally, let s talk about some news that broke, which is also extraordinary for nato and european security and american security. that is, of course, a permanent presence in poland. permanent is one of those words that people like me have wanted us to attach to our presence in poland since 2014. obviously there have been concerns with policy makers. but no more. obviously the events of the last six months have moved the united ....
Our recruitment and retention efforts across all branches of the military. i heard yesterday that we have 800 and 90 new who have accepted appointments to the u.s. air force academy this year to attend next year down several hundred from what our typical acceptance rate is of these appointments from nearly 1400 a year there are a lot of people in this country right now who are being disincentivized from joining the services which should concern the american people and there are a lot of good people leaving the service right now who for their entire lives thought they would stick around for a very long time. it s disappointing and discouraging to see this. we are getting our military. and i don t see how instilling crt helps unit cohesion. it actually destroys it. that s right. jesse: i honestly think they want it destroyed because there is no other reason for them to be teaching that stuff at west point. west point should be ashamed of itself and they should answer for that. ye ....
Have a numerical advantage. they outnumber the ukrainians in forces. they certainly have a lot of capabilities left. i would go so far, of the amassed power mr. putin had available pre-february 24th, he has a lot left. tell us what you re hearing again. there are reports that russian soldiers are refusing to fight and follow orders. we continue to get indications mostly out of the donbas fighting. not only junior enlisted soldiers but some officers are disobeying orders, refusing to fight. i mean, they still have unit cohesion and morale issues. they have command and control issues. why are they so bad? i think it is because they invested over the last 20, 30 years in high-end capabilities. they brag about that all the time. we know they ve used hypersonic missiles, for instance, in ukraine. but what they never did was change their doctrine. they didn t go after their operational concepts. they don t have a non-commissioned officers corps. ....
Here. what we would tell you this morning, we still assess mariupol is contested, that it hasn t been taking by the russians and there is still an active ukraine yann resistance. so they continue to fight for that city. . we are hearing, john, of these audio recordings that the ukrainians have intercepted of russian troops talking how they are killing prisoners of war. are you confident they are authentic and is the u.s. working with ukraine to verify them? . we have not been able to verify those recordings. certainly we are aware of that. i would just tell you broadly speaking, brianna, we continue to get indications through information channels as well as intelligence that the russians have not solved their leadership challenges. they have not solved their command and control challenges. they have not been able to get unit cohesion even down at the tactical level. they are still struggling with a ....
Military and the challenges that they re even having now as they try to move into the donbas? yeah. you know, it s a great question, joe. you saw that they announced a new general who s going to be sort of running the whole show now. it s clear that they are trying to learn from the mistakes that they made in the early days and weeks of this war, command and control, unit cohesion, operational maneuvers, trying to make sure they re maneuvering forces in a more efficient way. the integration of air and ground, which was deeply lacking in the first few days of the war where air commanders weren t talking to ground commanders. they re trying to fix that. you can begin to see the seeds of those efforts to improve their performance in these early days in the donbas. for instance, as i was telling willie, you know, before they started moving in big maneuver forces, they started moving in command and control elements and helicopter support and logistics and sustainment. clearly they are try ....