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Speaker 1: And Lieutenant General Newton, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show.

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Speaker 1: And first of all, you can't be political, of course,

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Speaker 2: Jill, did you just tell our listeners that I flew

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Speaker 2: more conversations with you. Regarding some of the chatter we

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Speaker 2: Well, let me pick at you just a little bit

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Speaker 2: Final point on this commentary is, don't think in terms

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Speaker 2: as I speak, Bill, We're shifting the pace, we're shifting

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Speaker 1: Air Force retired General Richard Newton. As far as logistics,

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Speaker 1: one of the talking points of MS NOW and CNN

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Speaker 1: is wasting our We have logistics problems, and of course

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Speaker 1: they're not going to talk about yeah, we're running out

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Speaker 1: of this, running out of that. But you were head

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Speaker 1: outside looking in as far as logistics running out of

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Speaker 1: the missiles, the drones and the weaponry we need. Do

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Speaker 1: that's a different issue. Do you have a concern about logistics?

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Speaker 2: Having served and help lead the United States Strategic Command,

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Speaker 2: of the Air Force, answers, Yes, I do. Fin amal

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Speaker 2: Brad Cooper the command of US Central Command, or I'm

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Speaker 2: the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan King. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I'm concerned about that and I keep focus on it. However,

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Speaker 2: this is not a zero sum game. The fact is

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Speaker 2: that the United States has tremendous capabilities, and the fact

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Speaker 2: is is that this is the combat operation that we

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Speaker 2: are well trained for, well executed, well suited for it,

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Speaker 2: and frankly, are very effectively. Our US military leaders are

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Speaker 2: are keenly aware of that. But also focused on the

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Speaker 2: stockpiles of these munitions. It's we're not at a point

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Speaker 2: where you know, you're like Iran Ran. You're seeing their

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Speaker 2: blooping missile inventory now down by eighty six percent. Their

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Speaker 2: penetration rate of their plicity missiles is down to only

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Speaker 2: effectively ten percent, along with their drones. But that's why

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Speaker 2: we're systematically going after Iranians most lethal capable system and

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Speaker 2: that's their blistic missiles. And we have done that, we

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Speaker 2: will continue to do so. It is a race, if

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Speaker 2: you will, to accomplish that mission, the overarching mission to

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Speaker 2: greet these conditions for Islamic regime to collapse and so forth.

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Speaker 2: But whether or not, we're not going to run out

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Speaker 2: of munitions and so forth. We're not running out of

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Speaker 2: slight qualities. But the point is is we have to Okay, now, however,

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Speaker 2: let me let me change pacee here in my conversation.

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Speaker 2: If I were test fined I did a number of

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Speaker 2: I would advocate forward. Now un lesson learned out of

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Speaker 2: we focus on offensive capabilities, those B two self bombers,

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Speaker 2: We need to be just as focused as a Congress

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Speaker 2: in order to not only appropriate but authorize, you know,

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Speaker 2: the Department of War capabilities to the defensive side of this.

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Speaker 2: What am I talking about, specifically air defenses, Terminal High

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Speaker 2: defense systems that see that those Arley Burke destroyers are

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Speaker 2: part of the Gerald Ford Terrier Strike Group and the

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Speaker 2: we need to replenish those stocks. And we need to

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Speaker 2: also have a major focus now, perhaps even more so

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Speaker 2: on our air defense capabilities. But that's going to be

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Speaker 2: taking care of. Back to the fight right now. The

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Speaker 2: strikingly successful. We will continue to be and frankly, we're

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Speaker 2: we want to continue to strive to defeat Iran ninety

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Speaker 1: General Richard Newton retired, thank you very much for coming

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Speaker 1: on this afternoon. And I would also add that yesterday

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