undoubtedly the focus is on the u.s. force posture. how we can ensure our forces are postured in the european theatre to maximize the deterrence against putin so he doesn t take one step into nato territory. as general mccaffrey referenced, there have been a number of troop movements the joint staff is orchestrating along with the supreme allied commander of europe who commands all forces for the united states in the european theatre and is the nato commander. that s the dominant issue at the pentagon. with respect to the intelligence community, they re scrutinizing every piece of information they can get their hands on from clandestine reporting, human reporting, signal reporting, overhead imagery, to understand the exact posture of russian forces, but also what are the regime intentions. what is putin thinking. who has influence in his inner szeryk l and what is going to be to the game plan as they move into kyiv. i want to note this is going to