air force brigadier general rob spaulding joins us now. general, thank you for joining us.er of the air force, you understand the surveillance side of things probably a little bit more than myself as a marine. i really want to ask you about the tactical side of this. we have talked about the diplomacy and the hostages a lot. what we haven't talked about is what israel gave up strategically and tactically on the battlefield in order to let this swap happen. the one thing i found incredibly interesting that we haven't talked much about is this idea that israel halted their aerial surveillance, that was a demand from hamas that obviously was very important, but my question, does hamas have the ability to know if they're being surveilled, you know, with some of the assets that israel may have? >> well, i mean, that's a great question. i doubt they could tell you that, you know, satellites are observing them from space and that's part of the aerial surveillance. so it's not just aircraft, it's also from space. but, you know, i think these hostage returns have been designed to ma