South Korea and the United States staged joint air drills for the second time this week, involving American F-22 and F-35B stealth fighters, to improve operational capabilities, the South Korean air force said on Friday.
to perform the combat-related tasks that these troops have been given. you need somebody to drive. you need somebody on the radio. you need somebody to coordinate strikes, and these are all this all ends up affecting military cohesion which is part of the reason, officials say, why we ve seen this much vaunted convoy that started almost exactly three weeks ago over the border of ukraine still stalled. they still have not made it to kyiv. they still have not managed to encircle all of the cities and enter all the sit teens they ve been gunning for. you re seeing that today. this was a fight that was supposed to be over within days. three weeks into it, a lot of the reason why is because of the ukrainian stiff resistance. that s led to a lot of combat deaths among the russian troops. it certainly shows the
one fell swoop, according to the new york times report. and in my view, all these things are wrong and will cause a great deal of damage. you also have said this is dangerous and disastrous to military cohesion and discipline. how does this put u.s. soldiers at risk? yeah, what i said in a tweet was most people would see this as reprehensible and a horrible event to pardon these individuals who are proceeding through trial or would commute a sentence. but it also has second and third order effects for any commanders in the field and for our allies and partners who depend on the united states military to do the right things, according to the law of land, warfare and ethical combat. you know, on a military commanders, we don t talk about this much, but military commanders have the requirement to control violence on the battlefield. and the way they do that is by ensuring their units are held to
they are there to kill people and blow stuff up. they are not there to be socially engineered. we want people who are transgendered to live happy lives. but we want unit cohesion and we want combat effectiveness, and that is why the president is doing this out of the warmth of his consideration for this population. kurt, apparently it caught military leaders off guard, including his joint chiefs of staff. is this simply a play to his base? yes. this has nothing to do with military cohesion or the costs of having the health care for transgender service members, of which by the way going to mar-a-lago costs more every week than the health care for transgender service members. this is about trump trying to throw something to the base. there is no directive to dod. there is no guidance of how this would actually happen. the joint chiefs had no idea this was going to happen. this is social policy by tweet. and his comments are narrow
country in service to the nation. why do you think the president decided to make such a big change out of the blue? there were probably several reasons but it was confusing to both admiral kirby and i as we talked about it. this one came out of the blue. we both knew secretary mattis was actually studying this and about twor two or three weeks ago the secretary sent a letter because he asked for a six-month extension. they wanted to study it more. and they said they had more input to provide and more research. so this floored both john kirby and myself. what about the argument that this hurts military cohesion? i just don t buy that. we ve heard this before with racial integration in the military, with the roles of women and in don t ask, don t