afghanistan. and that s the one we really have to keep an eye on even as, again, this is very significant take down of a very, very long-time and very significant extremist leader. the other thing it shows is the capability at least of the u.s. to to strike in in afghanistan, which was a question raised a lot in the wake of the withdrawal of u.s. forces from afghanistan. then, president biden had talked about fighting kind of over the horizon. i m wondering what there s not a lot of details about how this was conducted, but what would it take by way of intelligence, military coordination to accomplish something like this? well, obviously you ve got to get if it is presumably a drone, you have to get it within reach of that drone s dwell time. we know that you can fly a drone from our bases in various locations in the greater middle east and reach that location.
let me play intel. let s play the game. we could do this for three hours here. the intel picture, we heard about the russians being sloppy. the first thing you re looking at is communications, if they re sloppy. you can see a change in communications in a city around a command post and a specialist says that kind of change in communications may be including someone talking in clear speech, n nonenciphered, that suggests there is a change in the building and in is a command post there. you have a new piece of intel, dwell time. you get a drone up and can say based on what we re seeing in terms of trucks, movements around that, that say command post. you hand that over to the ukrainians, tactical stuff, maybe including photos, they say we have people on the ground who are seeing this, we have our own specialists listening to different communications on the ground, we re seeing that, we re going after that location based on what the americans said and based on what other stuff we re a