Of defeating jihad, why we fight. And most racially, the war for americas soul. The aand most recently. In your 2018 book, why we fight, you write the most significant threats we face today to not emanate from the world of nonstate actors. They come from old nationstate adversaries who have seemingly learned from the change wrought at the end of the 20th century and to understand the only way to defeat us is by using irregular or indirect means of attack. Could the assassination of general solar fit into that theory . It could because of who he was his official title. Thanks to having me on the show. He was the shadow commander. He wasnt a Major General in a regular Army Commanding divisions in a normal battle for you face off in combat and everything is aboveboard and you know where everybody is. This isnt the battle of the bulge or the first gulf war. He used proxy forces including in the u. S. And the recent attempt against the saudi ambassador to wage warfare by using means that th
He was the shadow commander. He wasnt a Major General in a regular Army Commanding divisions in a normal battle for you face off in combat and everything is aboveboard and you know where everybody is. This isnt the battle of the bulge or the first gulf war. He used proxy forces including in the u. S. And the recent attempt against the saudi ambassador to wage warfare by using means that the weaker power has developed against the far more powerful adversary like the United States. America is no longer a superpower as a french analyst claimed it. We are a hyperpower. Nobody can come close to us in our conventional capacity. We have 12 Nuclear Aircraft carriers. We have more special forces than some countries have soldiers. So use in direct means, proxies, terrorism and irregular warfare. Was the commander of that warfare. You also write and why we fight that we are not interventionists, but we are not isolationists. When it comes to this president , yes. As President Trumps former strate
101. So at 7 00, 57 to 34i6. Milder temperatures that will spring board us to 71 to 75 more brighter skies by noon except for the coast where we stay in the low to mid60s. A warmer afternoon seeing us push into the mid70s to low 80 frs the bay and inland neighborhoods but a comfortable evening on the way in the 70s. Got a little bit of a heat wave this weekend. Well talk about that coming up next. First over to alexis. Good morning, mike. Were looking at bay bridge toll plaza slowly starting to fill in. So that is the norm. Well see if the metering lights flip on early but most likely making it to 5 20 and the car pool is open and cash lanes not too bad, better than the last couple of days. So maybe they have a few more cash booths open. Drive times lookin good, southbound 101 santa rosa to petaluma 13 minutes and from Castro Valley to the maze and northbound 101 through downtown san jose, 280, 680 split to highway 85 in the green at about 11 minutes. Might have a new problem in richmo
Avenue offramp and they are still getting one or two more vehicles off the hillside involved but very quickly everything was pushed to the shoulder. However, we do have stop and go traffic from highway 4. So well check that out in a few. And San Francisco police are looking for two burglars accused of a hitandrun. The investigators say they purposely ran down a tourist outside of the legion of honor museum in front of his son. Jobina fortson is live and what led up to all of this. Reporter natasha and reggie there is glass all over the ground here and in other areas of the parking lot. It is not clear if it is from the incident from yesterday, but police tell us a father and his son had their car burglarized here. And then the father started to take pictures of the thieves and this is when police say the thieves rammed the getaway car into the father in front of his son. At last check, the father was in stable condition at the hospital. There is an sfpd sergeant and officer with him an
house to capitol hill with the collision of two historic and deeply connected events. the first, the ongoing crisis over the house speakership still unfolding in the house at this moment, which just voted to adjourn until 10:00 pm tonight after 13 votes took pl. and the speaker was still not elected pickett is something that has not happened in american politics in 164 years. since before the civil war. the second event, the anniversary of the january 6 insurrection. the worst attack on the united its capital in centuries. the commemoration today took place at the white house where pres. joe biden awarded the country second highest civilian honor, the presidential citizens will to 14 people who were instrumental in making sure that american democracy survived the coup attempt by the ex-president and his republican allies. it is group that includes first responders, officers, as well as election workers like ruby freeman and shane mossberg we have a chance to speak to two of t