resistence fighters. you have competition and fighting between isis-k and the taliban. my guess is it s not clear whether the taliban will be able to hold on as the government of afghanistan. it s not clear the u.s. will recognize them. jesse. so, jen, joe biden made a lot of promises that i support rescuing stranded americans and bringing the isis-k guys to justice. if we don t have anything in neighboring afghanistan, how do you pull off search and rescue or search and destroy with rangers or seal teams. stph how do you insert those guys? incredibly difficult. they don t have drone basis nearby. they re flying out of the gulf. no friending basing. that s a problem, jesse. the big problem is the entire intelligence network has dried up. they would be dependent to go
resistence fighters. you have competition and fighting between isis-k and the taliban. my guess is it s not clear whether the taliban will be able to hold on as the government of afghanistan. it s not clear the u.s. will recognize them. jesse. so, jen, joe biden made a lot of promises that i support rescuing stranded americans and bringing the isis-k guys to justice. if we don t have anything in neighboring afghanistan, how do you pull off search and rescue or search and destroy with rangers or seal teams. stph how do you insert those guys? incredibly difficult. they don t have drone basis nearby. they re flying out of the gulf. no friending basing. that s a problem, jesse. the big problem is the entire intelligence network has dried up. they would be dependent to go
missions and in some postings where there s just one or two members of the u.s. military. but part of what this story has done is aquake end some civilians to just how far flung these places are. in niger there are 800 u.s. forces roughly. most of them are building a new drone base. so you look at what the sbelts failure was here. maybe want having good isr. that stems in part because there s only about a 20 or 30% coverage. he has been complaining about this for some time. so what is his goal? build more drone basis. they have some 300 u.s. trups there working on these i understand meant drum kpasz. hop skopg they want to have coverage throughout the sahara and in part pause this is ungoverned terr fore. it s very difficult to traverse