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all right. we have to go. i want to thank jessica, miles, joanne, katherine, tom, and i'm greg gutfeld, and i love you sh, america. and hot spots arise around the world. our military is powering down. >> because if you are realizing that the army is decrease pg in size? why worry about the capability and the capacity to win in a major fight. >> wiare the armed forces getti new march iing orders. >> cadets are asked to walk around in women's high heels. >> i found the entire incident bizarre. >> is the u.s. military ready to face new threats? >> you are sending the message to the rest of the world ta the
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you are basically retreating. >> the shrinking military, and here is bret baier. >> and now, with the monument reminds us of uncommon valor, and also of the threats out there, and that our military will never know when it is called upon the go across the seas and accomplish a mission, and it reminds us that as much as we desire peace, will is no replacement for the military that is strong and ready. >> let are us pray. eternal father, strong to save as we bid fair winds and smooth seas to the fighting 56. >> we are witnessing the funeral of not a person, but a frigate, because the ship is being decommissioned.
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>> we are saying good-bye to the ship that is as important to the profession as the rest who have gone before her. >> the "simpson" was the last u.s. warship to engage in ship-to-ship operation during operation praying mantis. >> you must know that we will protect our ships, if i that are threatening us, they will pay a price. >> not long ago the navy had this many class of this frigate, but now they are all decommissione decommissioned. it is not just the navy saying good-bye to old friends. in march 2014, the army bid farewell to the kiowa helicopter, a workhorse of the air calvary in iraq and afghanistan. >> all of the power can be gone, and the aircraft can be gone, but it is only in the history books that people even know this
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role it played. >> in the air force, the president has capped the number of p f-22 stealth fighters, far short of the number originally envisioned. >> the budget is a zero-sum gain, and if more money goes to the f-22s, it is the citizens and the troop tas lose. >> these actions reflect a trend. u.s. military programs have been scrapped including a search and rescue combat rescue, and the vehicle program for rescue, and several missile defense systems such as the third defenseplan site plan for czechoslovakia and poland. along with the downsiding is a major reduction in the troops, h themselves. for instance, the army's active force is expected to drop to the smallest since before world war ii. 450,000 soldiers. >> we have cut the military to the lowest level, and yet, we are facing a world that is the most complex environment that we
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have faced since at least the end of world war ii. >> retired three-star general michael flynn ran the defense intelligence agency in the obama administrati administration. >> frankly, the united states of america is in a less strong position today because of the readiness and the size of our armed forces. >> i spoke the robert gates, the secretary of defense in the last years of the bush administration, and the early years of the obama administration. he told me that president obama promised him that there would not be any significant changes in the military budget for a while. >> overall, did he keep to the word? >> well, i think that began to fray, fray may be too gentle a word. >> before too long, gates found himself cutting hundreds of billions from the defense budget, and that is only the start. gate gates was inle forred the president wants to announce even more cuts. >> over the last two year, secretary bob gates has
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courageously taken on wasteful spending and saving $400 billion in future and current spending. i believe we can do it again. >> what was your reaction? >> well, i guess that i'd have to say that i felt double crossed. after all of the years in washington, i would say. >> and to in the cuts weren't about economic efficiency so much as a strategic change in the role of the military. you told president obama's staffers that the cuts sent a strategic message abroad that the united states is going home to cut a deal with iran and ki na when you can. >> i think that overall, it has had that impact, because you are sending the message to the rest of the world that you are e e treating. >> when you meet with president obama, you tell him that the way to compensate for the nepgst war is more blood, and american kids will die because of our decisions, and what was his response? >> i think that he acknowledged it. what i was pitching at a minimum
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was the world doesn't seem to be getting better. before you head down a path of deep cuts in defense, why don't you take it kin of slow. you know, it is one of those things, where, i lost the argument. >> i think that he see the military actually as something that is more dangerous to the world. i think that he looks at us, and i actually do think that he looks at the united states military and ceasees it as a threatening application around the world than actually a useful tool of how much -- >> how much more dangerous do you believe the world is now than seven or eight years ago? >> far more dangerous. >> the president has been tightening the belt of the military, and is this done to match a slimmed down version of american foreign policy? we will look at that when we return. re get ready... to show your roots.
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our diminished military did not come about simply due to cost-cutting measures, but some say it is part and parcel of administration's particular view of america's place in the world. >> the first family of the united states. >> on the night he was elected barack obama promised a different sort of foreign policy. >> the new daup of american leadership is at hand. >> it it did not take long to see in new leadership in action. in march 6th, 2009, secretary of state hillary clinton pressed a re-set button with russia promising better relation, and on june 4th, 2009, president obama gave a speech in cairo promising a new beginning with the muslim world. >> and the tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many, many muslims. >> he had a confidence coming in
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as president 2009 that he could alter fundamentally our relationship with the muslim world. >> joe lieberman was chairman of the senate committee on homeland security from 2007 to 2013. >> unfortunately the message that he sent was that the united states was no longer going to exercise its leadership of the world, which incidentally are through democratic and the republican presidential administrations from the end of the war right up until this time had been the great guarantor of security and prosperity and freedom in the world. >> jeffrey goldberg, national correspondent f "the atlantic" who interviewed president obama on his foreign policy tried to expl explain the president's approach. >> he refers to the the washington playbook, and the washington playbook is something happens in country x and therefore we have to send 350 cruise missiles to deal with ta problem, and so what he wants the do to break washington of
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the habit that the every problem overseas comes with a potential military solution. >> so it is clear that he had a new take, but the question remained, what would president obama actually do? he was against the war in iraq, but his military people warned against a hasty withdraw. >> it is really important that we tried to maintain a military presence there in order to make sure that the game he gained th been ap a-- that had been achie by a lot of blood could be m maintained. >> leon panetta was the secretary up until 2011. >> the key to maintain a key presence in iraq was to maintain a stay-behind-force.
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the president had to take the lead. >> the only chance for an agreement would have been his intensive involvement personally, personally, and that did not happen. >> so on december 18th 2011 the last convoy of troops pulled out of iraq. while all that was happening the yash spring spreading throughout the world. demonstrations and riots and even civil wars with people challenging their leaders. on january 25th, 2011, egyptians gathered in tahrir square to protest the policies of the egyptian president hosni mubarak, a long time ally. >> i always considered egypt to be critical to our ability to provide stability in the middle east. >> when it became apparent that mubarak had to go, the military urged caution. but the president push eed for s immediate removal. >> literally, the entire
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national security team re recommended handling mubarak differently than we did, and the president took the advice of three junior back benchers in how to treat mubarak, and one of them saying mr. president, you have to be on the right side of history, and i was at the table saying, yeah, if we could figure that out, we would be a long way away. >> i don't believe he felt that the generals should be trying to influence policymaking. >> and on february 11th, mubarak resigned. >> the wheel of history turned at a blinding pace. >> the happiest day in the white house is the day he left. and then egypt elected a new president, mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood. then egypt's next door neighbor, libya, also went up in flames. the country's dictator moammar khadafy had been cooperating with the u.s. since the invasion
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of iraq since 2003 and many voices around the world were demanding that he be removed from power. once again, the president's top military advisers counseled caution, and he sided with those who urged him to support the overthrow of khadafy, the secretary of defense reported to extraordinary measures. >> did you tell your subordinates to limit the amount of infor pags they gave to the white house on the military options available in will libya? >> all i said was that i don't want any military plans or options going to the white house that i have not seen. >> you write it more bluntly. you say, don't give the white house staff too much information on the military options, because they don't understand it. >> pretty much. >> that is a little bit more blunt. >> yes. >> and you had concerns about that, running a military operation out of the white house. >> yes. the experience we had with that in vietnam did not work out so
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well. >> and then president obama krigt humanitarian concerns ordered the american military to lead a coalition to confront khadafy. on october 20th, 2011, the libyan leader was captured and killed bynd i mam. eliciting this response. >> we came, we saw, and he died. >> and then syria. on august 20, 2012, after the syrian regime led by bashar al assad threatened to use chemical weapons against bosnia in a civil war, the president said this. >> the bottom line, a number of chemical weapons being moved around. >> and the united states was prepared to strike if assad did cross that line. then in august 2013, assad used
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the chemical weapons to kill hundreds of men, women and children. how did america respond? president obama ordered the military to stand down. >> and we did nothing. we showed weakness rather than strength. we will have more of the president's foreign policy when we return, but we will look at how he is transforming the military from the ground-up. ♪
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if our military if our military going through a transformation in how it relates to the rest of the world, it is going through a revolution in how it deals with itself. >> you're standing side by side
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in a life or death situation next to other warriors, and you have the know in the bottom of the soul that those warriors are going to stand with you. >> mike waltz, a former special forces company commander and special adviser to vice president kayny is ref-- vice president cheney is referring to the war culture. >> you are to have a bond and anything that interferes with the bond has to be treated very, very, very carefully. >> which is why some critics of barack obama oppose and fear the way that the president utilizes the armed forces. they feel he is more comfortable with the social change than the military command. >> this president has imposed a political agenda on the military. >> elaine donnelly is president of the center for military readiness. >> he has done it by redefining the military as a civil rights institution rather than the
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institution that defends the country. >> and you said that the president only shows one passion with the military and his determination to of turn "don't ask, don't tell," and what tid you mean by this? >> this is one area where i saw him become angry when things were not moving as quickly as he wanted them to move. i didn't see that anger at the lack of progress. on really any other issue that i dealt with, certain hly. >> ending "don't ask, don't tell" was one of the first social changes imposed on the u.s. military by the obama administration, but it was hardly the last. recently at fort gordon, georgia, hundreds of soldiers were summoned to a powerpoint presentation the about white male oppression, and the need to address the hierarchy and then a exercise required of some rotc cadets last year. we have heard some interesting
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thins that the male rotc cadets were pressured to walk around on college campuses in women's high heels to demonstrate their disapproval of the quote, unquote rape culture. >> i found the entire thing bizarre. when i was a rotc cadet which runzing until i threw up the if my boots were not shined pr properly. >> the obama administration removed all restriction s s on women serving in ground units. >> ta can serve as army ranges,s and green berets, and seals and paratroopers and all areas recently opened only to men. >> and instead of saying, if you are interested in that, this is the standard. >> and we spoke to someone who
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served two tours in iraq. >> if you meet the standards then you should be allowed to serve, that simple. >> the idea that men and women are interchangeable at that high of a level of the combat arms is utterly absurd. >> and this woman served in fallujah. >> the standards will be lowered either formally or informally, and there is no such thing as gender neutral. the sexes are not neutral. >> she contends that by lifting the comet bat restriction, the military is seeing the reality. >> women have been serving courageously in the military for a long time and we are have seen over a de-cade ago a woman in the national guard was awarded the silver star for the bravery in close quarters combat. >> a lot of the advocates for women in combat say that women have been fighting in combat for decades, and that is just not true. i was throughout with the
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infantry on the outskirts of fallujah and we would frisk women for explosives and we were in danger all day doing, that and this is not the same as hunting the en pmy where he lives, house-to-house, cave-to-cave and mostly on foot. >> critics point out that under the new law women will be o ordered into combat whether they want to be or not. >> i am sorry, but america needs to think about their daughter in a hand-to-hand fight in a cage, and no rules against isis fighters. >> when the army did an official survey, the results came back that 92.5% of the army women surveyed wanted nothing to do with combat assignment. >> what kerps many is that with this administration -- what concerns me with this administration, and the war culture so successful to the military is that they don't understand it, and often times they mistrust it. if you turn the military into a social experiment rather than a fighting force that has to meet
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certain standards and certain level of readiness to defend the nation, that is incredibly dangerous for the united states and as the leader of the free world, it is dangerous for the free world. >> some fear that social changes require of the military may cause trouble some day. others fear that they already have. that is next. that's next. it's everything you've ialways wanted. and you work hard to keep it that way. sometimes... ...maybe too hard. get claim rateguard® from allstate. it helps keep your homeowners' rate from going up just because of a claim. so protect your home and your rates.
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terrorists as oversea s actions and terrorists were to be referred to as manmade disasters. >> it is the approach to the administration that we won't call our enemy what they are, islamic terrorists. >> some say that this language the political correctness that t is required of our military. >> in fort hood, texas, major nadal hassan, a doctor in the u.s. mail tear stood on a table and shout ed allahu akbar, and t was stunning. >> and theis man was wounded tht
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day. >> the first round went in right here on the left eye. it spun me around, and i hit the floor. he came up on me and shot me aga again. >> as sergeant lunsford lay still if in a pool of his own blood, he e watched major hassan train his weapon on 21-year-old private francesca va lez. >> and when he was ready to soot her she said, i'm pregnant, i'm pregnant. and her last words were" my baby, my baby, my baby." she and her baby died later that day. >> he was corresponding with
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alaki one of the leaders. >> and some believe that the blame may lie in the environment of the military. >> a politically correct environment cannot lead you out of danger for yourself and your colleagues in the u.s. army. >> and that air thickened as the obama administration insisted that what happened at fort hood was not an act of islamic terrorism, but workplace violence. >> how could you say that a terrorist murdering 13 americans was workplace violence? that is ridiculous. >> and as for sergeant lunsford, he is still hurt by the government's lack of frankness. >> what hurts more than the wound itself is the sense of betrayal, because the sense of betrayal is when you wake up, it
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is there. when you sleep, it is there. and it is something that never leaves me. it never leaves me. >> the divide between the obama administration and many in in the military widened over the handling of the case of private bowe bergdahl. a man the president labeled a p.o.w. was are released by the taliban in exchange for five of their leaders. the release was supposed to be a celebration. >> this morning i called bob and jenny bergdahl and told them that after nearly five years in captivity their son beau was coming home. >> and what was your reaction when he hosted the bergdahl parents at the rose guaarden? >> i was pissed and in my view, he never should have been labeled as a p.o.w. >> did the men you served with consider him a soldier capture ord a man deserted his post? >> we knew immediately that day that the circumstances of his
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disappearance. he had essentially just deserted the post, and we were mad as hell about it, but we did not diminish the efforts to get him back. >> and he was ordered to lead special forces teams to find private bergdahl. >> it is the number one priority of the theatre of afghanistan, a and the taliban knew it, and they were feeding false information into our networks to try to bait us into even a compound where we thought that bergdahl might be, and it was rigged with with explosives and by the grace of god, it did not explode, but those were the situations that we found ourselves in night after night after night. >> and the president responded by dispatching one of the top aides to praise him. >> he served the united states with honor and distinction. >> and when he sends out susan rice and saying that sergeant bergdahl served the united
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states with honor and distinction. >> i will almost threw my television out of the yard, and myself and my men and the fellow green berets who nearly died looking for him were outrageous, and it is showing howtone deaf this white house can be to the way that the military members think and feel, and take words like that, served with hon for and distinction very seriously. >> and frankly, the white house should have made no statement wh whatsoever. >> leon panetta told us that he was dismayed of how the white house handled the bergdahl case. >> i don't mind the effort and negotiations, but, you don't just walk in and say, oh, yeah, we will give you five bad guys, and these were individuals who killed in many cases our own soldier soldiers. and what assurance do we have that they are not going to wind up blowing up innocent americans? it is demoralizing. >> incredibly demoralizing and demoralizing to the men and
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women in uniform as well when you are out there in harm's way, and your commander in chief releases the top five draft pick, and that is going to send a bad message to the troops and the afghan allies that we need to be serving alongside and encouraging. >> how has this new vision of the u.s. military been playing out across the world? that is next. military playing out across the world? that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides.
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earlier we saw the dip l diplomatic overtures that the obama administration made when it took office. today, we are see how the policies played out. -- today, we can see how the policies played out. the the administration promised a re-set with russia, and scrapping even a missile as a conciliatory gesture, and then he pulled american battle and t theks out of germany, that had been there since world war ii, a and all eyes were on vladimir putin to see how he would respond, and in p february 2014, putin sent in troops to seize ukraine's crimean e peninsula. >> we envisioned a different relationship than what has emerged. and we can did not anticipate
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that europe would illegally enter crimea. and we the did not see that destabling activity. >> and then putin was h menacing to ukraine, itself. >> and the fundamental path of dealing with a bully like putin, you cannot allow the bullies to get away with what they want to do. >> but the president rejected calls for a muscular response, and instead, announcing limiting sanctions. >> there is a path to resolve this diplomatically in the way that it addresses russia and ukraine. >> the president should have taken some very strong steps to make very clear to putin that this was unacceptable. he should have provided arms to the ukrainians. >> but he didn't. and today, russia is emboldened and threatening to spread the fear of influence wider. >> secretaries panetta and gates
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said that you can let the bullies get away with bullying or pay a price. >> i was talking about ukraine with the president, and he e told me very bluntly, that ukraine as a non-nato country living in the shad e doe of russia will always be subject to russian mettling and domination, and so what he is doing there is to signal that this is not worth the united states' investment. >> and then there were barack obama's overtures to the muslim world where he hoped to change the image of america. he had pulled american troops out of iraq without a stay-behind-force that had been recommended by the military advisers. but without a u.s. presence, violence immediately returned k across the country. neil ferguson, professor of history at harvard university remembers talking to veterans of the war. >> they had turned to be told
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that the mission was aborted must have been a shattering blow. >> the iraqis of course could not leave, but many of them found another foe. >> many of them ended up working with isis to create the force that ultimately came back and invaded that part of iraq that they helped. >> in egypt, president obama had supported the overthrow of the american leaning hosni mubarak, and thought that when a new government was elected with mohammad osny. >> i have come to alexandria to are reaffirm the strong support of the united states for the egyptian people, and for your democratic future. >> this is hilariously wrong in the egyptian faith, because the muslim brotherhood turned out to be the most extreme group
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capable of winning large numbers of votes. >> and so once in office, he had unlimbed powers and instituted shariah law. >> and so egypt with welcomed the ous ster of mubarak and mors morsi. >> yes, and this is hope and change not coming to fruition. egypt engaged in kchaos, and morsi was overthrown in a coup. libya is the one place that president obama was willing to take action with the support of the u.n., and soon the dictator moammar khadafy was gone which led to the question of what happens next? and what happened nextt is that libya fell into kchaos, and the fact brought home with a tragic attack in benghazi where four
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americans were killed, including ambassador stevens. and soon isis and al qaeda were fighting for power. >> it was a mistake the go into libya. i was in a key job in the administration and i can't tell you what were our goals for that the operation? i really don't know. to eliminate ka dau the fi? that is a severely dumb decision. >> he said to me about the libyan intervention, it did not work. >> wasn't he warned by people like secretary gates and the tribal histories and taking out khadafy? >> there was a fight in the administration and turns out that the gates' side was right, but obama was on the the side of, you know, i should not have let myself be pressured into this intervention, and that is profoundly influenced the way he dealt with syria for the next couple of years. >> and syria, as you will recall is where president obama drew a red line, and then it was crossed. the president and his advisers
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agreed on the attack plan, but he pulled back at the last moment. >> i use the term stunned, because i was stunned by that. >> chuck hagel served as president obama's secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015. >> it reversed a very come prehepive and complete decision that had just been made ours prior to that, and the president had made the final decision, and few hours later, we are pulling that down, and reversing it. >> and secretary hagel told us that the president's decision damaged america's credibility. >> it was all over the world. and our allies would ask me, how can we have confidence in whatever else he says? it is an old principle that the president should be very careful without drawing lines, but once he drew that line, the united states is obligated to enforce that, that red line. >> for a lot of people in
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washington, and a bunpch of other places around the world, this is a weak moment for the united states, and weak moment in the presidency. and he told me not only was it not a weak moment, but it was a proud moment for him, because it is the moment that he broke with the washington playbook. >> so he does not see this as weakness at all? >> no, it is a moment of great udence, and application of smarts. he does not see it as weakness. >> but if it was a proud moment, others asked, what has it produced? >> in the end, you have a middle east that is devastated, and more suffering and more kill in, and more distrust and more hatred. >> and so the man who presented himself as a man of peace, has presided over much more violence than has been done in his predecessor. >> and when we return, we will talk to men in uniform and ask them if we are prepared. i take g for my frequent heartburn
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speaking of an aircraft we hadn't seen before as far as numbers in that formation. >> it was one of several incidents and the response was
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like the drill you're seeing now. >> because of vast distances here in alaska. >> the colonel pilots this stealth raptor, fully armed and ready to go on a moment's notice. >> it takes time to get there. so every second on the ground we can get closer and identify whatever is out there. >> one thing it has seen out there is russian tu 95 bombers. capable of carrying nuclear weapons. these have become common enough, so at norad they've gone back t every time there is an intercept. there are plenty of experts who see russia as a danger we cannot ignore. >> russia presents the greatest threat to national security.
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>> russia has the capability to sdrie the united states of america. >> we're confronting a russia that entered a new chapter in the cold war. >> it's not only russia. china sent warships into alaskan waters. >> we have to prepare ourselves with understanding the president would be visiting at that time. >> colonel bodin controls the norad information center. >> we were able to track them to know where they were. >> the chinese were off shore, president obama visited anchorage and gave a speech. >> it proves this one threat is now very much in the present. >> he wasn't referring to a military threat. >> human activity is disrupting the climate. >> he was talking about climate change. as russia builds new bases across the arctic, and china
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building up it's land and sea forces, the pentagon is reviewing a decision to cut back up to 71% of an airborne paratrooper brigade based in alaska. >> every governmental official noticed this is a vital component of the army. >> deputy commander jeffrey crepo is part of the team ready to go anywhere within hours's notice. >> our senior leaders are having to make tough decisions in the environment we're in now. >> such decisions are part of the newer, smaller, military in the newer, less intrusive role. to neil ferguson there is a lesson here we're starting to learn the hard way. >> it's when a great power withdraws that conflict is most likely to escalate. that is exactly what happened. the result is a sobering one.
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>> amid rising threats, the army returned it's tanks to europe and pushed off a decision to cut the 425 by another year. until another president takes office. >> what kind of world will that president, he or she, inherit? >> the next president will face a world that is more complex, more challenging for american interests than any president of the eight that i serve. >> this is about whether or not we can promote a world that can share in the values of the united states. if the united states doesn't provide that leadership, nobody else will. nobody will. >> i think it's fair to say the president doesn't want to commit his military to quick night time raids. if you're obama, you argue the military is in better shape because i don't have 180,000
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troops fighting wars that are unwinnable and not that important. >> i have grave concerns in terms of the readiness of forces. because a deal with great power or war with one of, or two of, four countries. we're talking about china, russia, iran, and north korea. >> we're going to see ourselves potentially in a war far greater than what we have experienced in the middle east given everything the president of the united states hz been told about the complexity and danger in the world today, stop the bleeding that you are causing to our armed forces. the u.s. has been involved in nonstop military action abroad for a decade and a half. and americans are widely thought to be war weary. but we all know it's still a very dangerous world. our first president famously
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warns his young country against foreign interests. he said one effective way to maintain peace, he said, is to be prepared for war. that's our show. thanks for watching.
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