maximum effect. these three targets seemed to hit the sweet spot and do that. what impact did the public prelude to this attack have on military planning in terms of enveloping a maybe 21st century bodyguard of lies in terms of deception on ship movements? what impact on possible launch axis of the aircraft or ships used? we re all focused on the donald cook. it wasn t used. can you give some sense of that? the truth is, it had no effect. no effect on military planning. david? david martin. i heard you say that the strike put more steam behind the geneva peace process. how does this help bring peace to syria? the we have been very clear about the fact that we fully support the u.n.-backed geneva process. sochi has failed.
chemical weapons again. we support our diplomats who are working to set the conditions for the united nations backed geneva process to succeed, and we look forward to working with the united nations envoy to syria, stephan de mistera in an effort to maintain transparency. mckenzie will provide a detailed overview of the actual operations. general mckenzie? i m going to just talk about the military details of the strikes that we executed last night. could i get the first graphic up, please? as you ve heard from the president of the united states and directly in this room from secretary mattis and dunn ford, the united states, the united kingdom and france, three of the five perminent members of the u.n. security council conducted a coordinated strike in response to the syrian use of chemical weapons. this combined military strike was directed against three
what impact did the public prelude to the attack have on military planning in terms of enveloping a 21st century body guard of lies in terms of deception on ship movements? what impact did it have on launch access of the aircraft? ships used? we are focused on the donald cook. if i could build on the body guard comment, no effect. no effect on military planning. david? david martin? i heard you say the strike put more steam behind the geneva peace process. how does this help bring peace to syria? the u.n. we have been very clear about the fact that we fully support the u.n. backed geneva process. sochi failed. our focus remains defeating
working to set the conditions for the united nation s backed geneva process to succeed and we look forward to working with united nations envoy to syria, in an effort to maintain transparency, mckenzie will provide a detailed overview of the actual operations. thanks. ladies and gentlemen, good morning. i m going to spend the next couple minutes talking of the military details and the strikes last night. could i get the first graphic up, please. as you heard from the president of united states and directly from this room, secretary mattis and dunford. they conducted a proportional, precision, coordinated strike in response to the syrian regime s use of chemical weapons. this combined strike was directed against three distinct chemical weapons targets. i m going to show them to you in