. >> joining me now to help explain this is retired lieutenant rick francona. rick, good to see you. the reports are certainly disturbing if it is possible that as many as 200 civilians could have been killed in one or more air strikes in mossle. wasn't this part of the initial concern when the operation began, to try to evict isis from this densely populated city? isn't that one of the major challenges the u.s. and iraqi forces had? how do you push a militant group out of a place with tens of thousands of civilian residents? >> we knew this was going to be a problem as they were bottled up into the densely populated area. any use of air or artillery was going to cause civilian casualties. the objective is to minimize the risk. when you are dropping high explosives into a very compact area, this is what happens. the problem is, knowing what's underneath where you are striking. it is an infetelligence, fast-moving problem. when the targets pop up, an iraqi unit calls for air support, if the target is a validated target, it meets all of the requirements, the ameri

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. >> let's talk more about this with rick francona in la quinta, california. you compared the spending to the military spending of several other countries, just to put things in perspective. u.s. the biggest military spender in the world by far with almost $600 billion. this was for the year 2015. that's three times as much almost as the next biggest spender, china. so, my question is does the u.s. need, in your assessment, to spend more money on this military? >> i think we do because our commitments are worldwide. when you look at these other countries that we're comparing this military spending with, they generally have a regional focus or just their own self-defense focus. so, when you're looking at a military with a worldwide presence, a worldwide mission such as the united states, it's much, much more expensive to run that kind of a department of defense. and we've been suffering over the last several years with the sequestration. so, our real spending has not increased at all. at the same time, we've increased the operations tempo. if you look at the u.

. >>> joining us now to talk more about this is lieutenant colonel rick francona, milg taker itary.good to have you with us. let's talk about the u.s. military investigating what has been 300 civilian deaths in just a month, three different instances that they are looking at. is this just a matter of not getting the right information, is this to be expected in this type of offer agansive? >> as isis has pushed closer into these densely populated areas both in mosul and soon to be in raqqah, we can expect an uptick in civilian casualties. but these numbers are pretty startling. as we expected it, we never expected to go up this high. so on what has changed other than the situation on the ground? is there changing in the targeting, are we having intelligence problems, or are we just hitting the wrong targets. so i think that the investigation that centcom will launch will try to answer those, but i think that this is a situation that will continue as i said as we get closer into this urban filgt. urban fighting is the most dangerous for civilians and as we know, isis is using all of t