stratcom command and control, what's happening over in this one lane. but then other lane of what's happening with the president. it was uniquely interesting to me, having written about the secret service in a previous book, specifically the secret service paramilitary team, which protects the president, the counter assault team, cat team. i got thinking and knowing what how they're job is to protect the life of the president no matter what and they will go to any. then i was thinking well what would they because of course if an incoming missile is coming into washington, d.c., the president's in washington, d.c., the secret service is going to get him out, is going to be their focus. and they are very determined. and they also have a lot more weapons than anyone else around. okay. and so in interviews with the former director of the secret service, cat team members, i about this other unique element called, a unique part of the captain called the element and that's would come into play in the white house to move the president. and that was interesting.

stratcom command and control, what's happening over in this one lane. but then other lane of what's happening with the president. it was uniquely interesting to me, having written about the secret service in a previous book, specifically the secret service paramilitary team, which protects the president, the counter assault team, cat team. i got thinking and knowing what how they're job is to protect the life of the president no matter what and they will go to any. then i was thinking well what would they because of course if an incoming missile is coming into washington, d.c., the president's in washington, d.c., the secret service is going to get him out, is going to be their focus. and they are very determined. and they also have a lot more weapons than anyone else around. okay. and so in interviews with the former director of the secret service, cat team members, i about this other unique element called, a unique part of the captain called the element and that's would come into play in the white house to move the president. and that was interesting.

the hard part was to get the commander of stratcom, who was about as low-key as a commander of that rank can be to do a good interview, because he was our main interview. and they talk in such jargon, extended deterrence, mutually assured destruction and all of that stuff, and if you have not been steeped in that for half of your life, you do not know what the hell they are talking about. and i remember meeting with him before i went out there. he was in town for congressional testimony, and i took a transcript of his congressional testimony, and i highlighted every single piece of jargon that he used, and i said if you use that in the interview you were just wasting your breath, because it does not mean anything to people. and, you know, by the time i got out there, she was really surprised -- he was really surprised to learn that, that people do not know what extended deterrence means. so by the time i got out there with the camera he really had spiffed up his act to make it a more accessible to viewers. and i have now sort of adopted that anytime i go anyplace is try to talk to them a

they really are excellent in stratcom media in phillips and also sell helps with each item. officials and hope wisdom countries take the lead from them. the role of p r firms in ukraine, throughout europe and into united states really can't be overstated. it's quite different than it was in previous decades where there used to be more of a covert role of propaganda, government propaganda operations. now this is as the celebrated as p r in helping ukraine and helping get their message out. the program was in the lowest in 2022. not even back in 2014 when a code that uh took place. and you crying jason small, it says u. s. p. all consultants, levine, loading ukraine's public image for decades. so the fact is that there's been americans working in ukraine in politics and as proof consulting since i mean after 5. so here you see a lot of course, the great input from the thought was as well studying united states, for instance, born here in order to learn new skills and to bring them back to work here in the print. overall, i think there's been a positive for both the crane as well as for

the hard part was to get the commander of stratcom, who was about as low-key as a commander of that rank can be to do a good interview, because he was our main interview. and they talk in such jargon, extended deterrence, mutually assured destruction and all of that stuff, and if you have not been steeped in that for half of your life, you do not know what the hell they are talking about. and i remember meeting with him before i went out there. he was in town for congressional testimony, and i took a transcript of his congressional testimony, and i highlighted every single piece of jargon that he used, and i said if you use that in the interview you were just wasting your breath, because it does not mean anything to people. and, you know, by the time i got out there, she was really surprised -- he was really surprised to learn that, that people do not know what extended deterrence means. so by the time i got out there with the camera he really had spiffed up his act to make it a more accessible to viewers. and i have now sort of adopted that anytime i go anyplace is try to talk to them a

it take for the world to end well, in the world, in the words of general keillor, who is a former stratcom commander in the event of a full scale nuclear exchange between russia and the united states, the world would end in the next couple of hours. >> that is from general keillor himself the missiles that worry you most can. >> can they be recalled? once launched absolutely not i think this is something that most people don't understand and should be known that any of these ballistic missiles involved in nuclear war cannot be directed, redirected. >> they cannot be recalled, and that is why all of this begins in seconds okay, now let's talk about the current situation. >> so we've taken the guardrails off the atacms for the ukrainians putin responds by lowering his nuclear threshold and rolling out the oreshnik what's your level of concern about where we are today it feels to me like what's going on is a game of sort of nuclear chicken, you know where no one wants to flinch and we all know what's at stake here. >> i'm just astonished every time you think no one's going to cross that red l

we're going to stratcom omaha, nebraska, where there's great communications and way to deal directly with the faa and the military about all the work that they did. and i want you to recognize the leaders it took to do all of and it was great leadership from the president the very first thing he did that struck me in response what happened after he got on air force one. he wanted to make sure putin wasn't doing anything in thinking that we were doing using this as a way to attack russia. and he had condoleezza rice call, putin up and say this is what's happening. don't you overreact to anything very important that we did that he ended up becoming an ally for a short time in process. in fact, it was almost this time in 2001 where putin came to texas and went to crawford, texas, to the president's ranch. and it was in response the way the russians were actually helping fight some of the terrorism that faced. so i'm pleading with you to go back and see why that picture is iconic. and it's not iconic because of me. but the day was iconic. there was no tsa before that. there was no securi