Predator drones, kind of a flip of the switch. There is an 11 process with lawyers at every level standing right at the commander shoulder with a series of criteria of whether we can take that shot or whether we can go on that raid, to the point that i argued in the book to our detriment. Our hands are too tight. The pendulum has swung too far and it really, you know as i said our in actions often have greater consequences than our actions. Does that answer sure. I had all the time in afghanistan and i spent part of sort of the grill insurgency along with your community and a few others for a few decades now that has tried to fight the going battle inside the policy of rome in the beltway here, and then combatant commands. What would you offer as advice . When we woke up in this alternative universe this one where weve got representatives from the joint staff, dod advertising that the Afghan National Security Forces and police are going to be able to take care of this problem but at th
Warning and people are told to fill up elsewhere and dont touch what is coming from their own taps. Al qaeda fighters are coming under presh y in iraq and syria, and the Islamic State is being attacked in syria. First to the operations to drive them out of the province. We have more on that and the attacks in baghdad. The standoff lasting for days they are ready to go into the city and fight the group. The agreement to do so was hard fought. Local tribes insisted they be part of the operations, however, other tribes in the area have disagreed. The tribal revolutionaries are fighting to protect the city and we swear to take on others from the government. The standoff is indicating the tension between the new tribes in the province and the government and now the Prime Minister has an agreement and poised to act. Increased coordination between the army and the tribesmen. I think this issue is resolved won a couple of days to expel the armed groups. They have sent out a video on the air st
That we normally dont have heard namely 25 fuel efficiency as an example. We very much would like to have competition on all of our programs. Continues,estration its compounding effects, we may be forced to down select earlier than we would like. That is the risk of sequestration, ok . I would like to give an example that is exactly what had happened on jack comes program. Joint air to ground missile it 30 million mark and then a 69 sequestration on top of that. It is not that we wanted to make the cut, but we were forced to cousin budget shortfall. General posten would you like to add . It is critical not only because as you say we have fuel savings, 25 there. It also has a maintenance savings. It is key to our developmental programs in the future. We are working to get that in the current platforms of and apache but it is also tied to our joint multirole aircraft. Sequestration places this program at risk of having to do it early down select which will, appearsntinue and it that we w
Killing its way and burning across the country towards baghdad. Two areas were focusing on right fowl, the Iraqi Military which is not holding up against this group called isis, they are waiting for the arrival of u. S. Military advisers that could be coming in the next few days. Also fighting is raging this weekend on iraqs border with syria. Were getting reports of iraqi troops being killed and wounded. Two of cnns Senior International correspondents are in iraq this evening. Nic robertson in baghdad, arwa damon in erbil. Where are iraqi troops fighting right now and how high is the concern that baghdad could potentially fall to this militant group . Reporter deb, i dont think theres a concern that baghdad is about to fall. But the Development Today is hugely significant and cannot be underestimated. The border town of the iraqi to syria border town after three days of fighting has fallen. The iraqi brigade there has been overrun. This is coming from an Iraqi Security source in the w
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