a comment for john nagl.oner: i have a 10-year-old who has a great fear of ice is inviting the united states -- isis invading the united states. how would you explain it as a threat to a child? i know there has been a lot of discussion about boots on the ground. no special operations forces are going to be required. i know we are stretched pretty thin. what do you think the capacity is for americans to assist in this fight? host: why is your 10-year-old fearful of an ice's invasion -- isis invasion? caller: he watches c-span quite a bit. we apologize for that. guest: there is little risk of an isis invasion of the united states. in new hampshire, you are likely to be enormously safe. the risk of isis is attracting people with western passports and training them in jihad and they are going to be enormously difficult with those western passports for us to track. that, am afraid of is mujahedine afghan became the breeding ground for , it became people's way of life. jihad university. is going to become jihad uni

a comment for john nagl. caller: i have a 10-year-old son who has a great fear of isil invading the united states. how would you explain isil as a threat to a child? i know there has been a lot of discussion of boots on the ground. i know special operations forces are going to be required. i know we are stretched pretty thin. what do you think the capacity is for americans to assist in this fight? host: why is your 10-year-old fearful of an isis invasion? caller: he watches c-span quite a bit. host: we apologize for that. guest: you are doing a great job educating your son. i wish i could do that with my son other than watching skate or videos. skateboard videos. there is little risk of an isis invasion of the united states. in new hampshire, you are likely to be enormously safe. the risk of isis is it is attracting people with western passports and training them in jihad and they are going to be enormously difficult with those western powers for us to track. what i am afraid of is that, just as the afghan mu

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host: here's a recent editorial colonel john nagl wrote for politico. you recommend even more than military advisers, boots on the ground? as we say. already have more than just advisers. we have apache helicopters that we have used. in an escalation of the war efforts that i agree with. rubicon.rossed that we are engaging in direct firefights with isis forces from the air. from attack helicopters, which is different from airplanes. i believe we need to multiply the number of americans on the ground by a factor of about 10. because our advisers are so good, because our air power is controlled with americans, but our air power is not nearly as effective as it could be. when we put american advisors on the ground, the tempo of air operations will increase. and the caliber of our opposition is not really that good. isis has been cleaning up against a demoralized iraqi army that is not well lead and not well-equipped. i believe it is comparatively easy to change that within a couple of months and 10,000 additional american boots on the ground. i strongly re

later, john nagle on his new ook. welcome to "defense news." i'm vagvag. >> cutting edge air defense destroyers in service already and to be joined in the coming years by t two g giant aircraft carriers, as well as mew frigates. the carriers will operate the short takeoff of lockheed martin's f-35 fighter that will also than used by the u.s. marine corps. rush why continues to provoke its neighbors. last week a suspected r russian sub waspotteded in swedish waters as a russssian spy plane briefly penetrated atonian air space. we met with an admiral, britain's first sea lord and a top nato commander who was in washington last week for a meeting with top defense leaders. given the threat from russia, i asked him what the contingency rce should look like andow itit will shape britain's investme priorities. >> i think the answer to the question is to do what we have always done, which is to be credible within into the, whichever domain y're talking about. particularlyly my interest is i maritime. you have to have the right equipment at the right re

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