vanished. i remember reporting on soldiers in 2010 and hearing these stories about ghost soldiers, commanders would pad out unit numbers and get the salaries and pocket it. there was a lack of motivation and moral and air support went away, drone support, ground sup support. there is one other factor that needs mentioning, though. the taliban is ideologically driven. tha they desire, their wish is to die in battle in gjihad. that s not the case with most of the afghan army. they want to go home to their 60,000 of them died. without u.s. support they saw writing on the wall. such important context as we try to absorb and take in what is happening after this 20-year war in afghanistan with the taliban regaining control. michael holms, thank you for your insight. the biden administration bristoling at reminders it vowed
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but the pentagon warns that such conclusions are premature. still, there are urgent questions about why the team was exposed without drone support directly overhead. earlier this year, the u.s. commander for africa warned that only 20% to 30% of his intelligence requirements were satisfied. it s very dangerous when you carry out any mission and you don t have extended eyes and ears around yourself or the human intelligence to determine when you ve met a threat. reporter: dara, we re learning even more this morning. the new york times is reporting that u.s. and nigerian forces are giving different accounts to the investigators about what happened, about whether or not they gave chase to islamists before they were ambushed. so there s a lot of unclarity here. yesterday on the hill, secretary mattis would not say whether or
wow. todd: after hurricane harvey hit texas next guest actually used these drones to hit in recovery and relief. abby: in florida and ready to help in the wake of hurricane irma. pete: author of stone drone warrior. we did a segment before you were headed to houston. we have seen footage of that what are you doing right now in florida? right. so, essentially what s happened now is a lot of people obviously are heading out of florida. our team is heading. in we just moved our group of professional drone pilots and a small team and equipment of industrial drones here to help with irma. we have embedded with a group of medical professionals. so doctors, nurses, even a canine search and rescue team. we re going to basically be augmenting them with drone support. so a lot of the stuff that we can do with drones is actually going to occur after the storm hits. and so we re going to be really focused on doing instant damage assessments, providing live streams of