What do you make of all this, Colonel?

Colonel?$350 billion plus are, are tactical and strategic, uh, precision-guided missiles and weapons, uh, to the point where, uh, folks are openly complaining we're short of stocks.

And this guy, Zelenskyy, uh, doesn't wanna take up a simple ask from the President of the United States, "Don't hit the diesel refineries." That's it.

And then he comes out and publicly, uh, shame, tries to shame the President of the United States and shame the American people.

Well, I got s- news for him.

There's a lot of us that have been totally against supporting Ukraine, uh, from the very beginning of this.

And I'm not pro, uh, Putin going in and invading, but the Russians set a bright red line for quite some time about the encroachment of NATO and inviting Ukraine into NATO, and they said that it would be a bright red line.

Do you?

So what's your take on it?

Yeah, you know, I was very surprised with the wholesale withdrawal in very rapid fashion that the president was just talking about in that clip there.

The first thing I was surprised by is they had just put new crews and aircraft in on a rotation with rotate crews and aircraft from the United States into these spaces to give the other folks that have been flying out of their relief, give them a chance to go home, put the airplanes back at home to do heavy maintenance and those kinds of things.

Well, it was just six days before that when this rotation occurred.

That tells me the threat must have been very credible and very high to not only the aircraft, but to the air crews, the maintenance personnel, and all the Americans that are operating RAF Fairford.

So that's one issue that people should be going, oh, it's a valid threat.

Two is the perimeter and the security internal to the perimeter is a United States responsibility, even though it's a British base.

You think that they would see and have a way to defend against that, especially if London's in the direct line.

So what's your take on it?

Yeah, you know, I was very surprised with the wholesale withdrawal in very rapid fashion that the president was just talking about in that clip there.

The first thing I was surprised by is they had just put new crews and aircraft in on a rotation.

And we rotate crews and aircraft from the United States into these spaces to give the other folks that have been flying out of their relief, give them a chance to go home, put the airplanes back at home to do heavy maintenance and those kinds of things.

Well, it was just six days before that when this rotation occurred.

The threat that tells me the threat must have been very credible and very high to not only the aircraft, but to the air crews, the maintenance personnel and all the Americans that are operating already at Fairford.

So so that's one issue that people should be going, oh, it's a really it's a valid threat.

You think that they would see and have a way to defend against that, especially if London's in the direct line.

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... of the NATO alliance and the Western alliance, and we partner with them, uh, in that regard.

And that makes the issue even more important to take a look at and reevaluate, because if they can't protect, uh, an American airbase that has B-1 bombers and, uh, potentially B-52 bombers, which are nuclear capable, by the way, operating from it, uh, then that needs to be looked at very, very closely, and all the rest of our basing within that country.

Because the government, uh, you know, according to eyewitnesses, according to people's, uh, biographies that are in the government, are very reticent to call out this for what it is, and is, it's Islamic terrorism and Islamic non-combatants, uh, that are coming in and acting as unlawful combatants on behalf of Iran, if that report turns out to be true.

So we have to take a really good close look at that.

But you got to the real essence of the concern that I have, and have had for quite some time now, and that is are our, uh, home bases, where we have very few Things like B2 bombers, B1 bombers, B52 bombers.

You know, I was in strategic air command when the Cold War ended and the wall fell in Berlin.

Yeah.

Can you talk about the importance of this announcement and what it may entail?

Uh, that, that announcement is huge, Beau.

You know, it's the first of many that you're gonna hear about from a shipbuilding perspective.

This focuses on the Navy shipyard and, and Palmer Luckey's Anduril corporation is gonna be building key components of the, uh, Virginia-class submarines, so, uh, they can get those components down to Norfolk, uh, and up to the north where the other shipyards are, uh, that need those components.

So it's very big deal.

Uh, look for more announcements, though, going into commercial sealift shipbuilding and shipyards too.

That is the one that really is difficult to, uh, get into and change, and the president's team is working very, very hard on all of those.

Can you talk a little bit about what that entails in terms of the future of warfare?

Relations, yeah

... operates in the United States.

It's a Muslim Brotherhood front.

The Muslim Brotherhood's been declared terrorist organization by many countries.

Uh, parts of it have been declared terrorist, uh, foreign terrorist organization by the United States under President Trump.

But they were very strong, and I didn't see this video or a still from it until this 25th anniversary because I, I had...

I, I was working in the Pentagon.

How important might it be, Colonel Maness, that we, we recover the accurate use of that term and get actually enthused about using it, that America is unique, America is exceptional? Speak to what that term means, means, in, in your vocabulary, sir.

So then what can one do to prevent this sort of, um, malaise if you will, uh, that I think you're describing? That, that where we are as a culture.

Well, we have to make sure that we call it out for what it is, and recognize, uh, what Islam is for what it is.

It's an ideology, uh, that is, uh, from an American perspective, seditious by nature, uh, and by organization.

Uh, it is an ideology that, uh, if someone walks away from it and decides for instance they, uh, wanna come to Christ, which I call all Muslims to do all the time, uh, that they will be killed by that ideology and the people that operate in that id- ideology.

That's the first step, is recognizing this issue for what it really is.

And then second, we've gotta really think about the things that we have done that we think have made us safer, but there are still obvious gaps there.

And some of us are not saying that we need to get those gaps filled because we're afraid to talk about the ideology for what it is.

Right

Well, I just don't know-

Yeah, I mean, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, you know, the big, the big push, you brought it up, gas prices, uh, Al.

Uh, uh, that is, that is the target, uh, framing right there.

"Oh, man, I can't afford to put gas in the car, uh, and get to work." But it's the policies that especially Democrats have pushed and passed for years like, uh, that with some establishment Republican help, the H-1B visa program.

It's a policy like that, that, that it allows a company to bring in an accountant for $45,000 a year instead of hiring an American for 60,000 years, uh, or 60,000 a year.

Uh, it's those kinds of policies that have hurt this population of young men that is, that is threatening to either not vote or vote for the Democrat side.

Uh, and those policies are pushed by the side they're talking a- about voting for.

Yes

Yeah, basically, yes, we can hear you OK.

Yeah.

So that's the fabricated piece of this.

And they convince people that work inside the Pentagon to steal our personnel records and hand them over to these reporters.

And they use bits and pieces of the facts from those personnel records.

to paint this picture of this secret army of influencers that have been hired in order to do this job for pete hegseth which is nothing could be further from the truth the secretary of war developed this task force to investigate the war colleges back earlier this year we were hired and asked to man this task force, or three of us, myself, our retired Army Colonel Kirk Schlichter, retired Army Colonel Tom Anderson, who goes by Cynical Publicist, on X.

And it was just us three, and there was no secret about it.

What is your sense of those who call themselves Republicans who are doing the bidding of socialists and Marxists and going so so bold as to say that they will be voting for socialists and Marxists to defeat Republicans in the next election? What is your sense on that just as a military man?

Do you see Iran's capability to deny passage of the Straits diminished, or are they playing a different game because maybe they're getting some of their oil out as well?

I believe it's diminished tremendously, Matt.

Look, as I mentioned, every time they fire something, they get a very fast and effective response that removes more of their capability.

And as I mentioned a few weeks ago, you're going to start seeing them start to husband their resources so that they don't lose them all in responses by the United States.

And I think that's part of what you're seeing here is A husband of these resources, they'll probably choose much more carefully when they do try to use military force.

But look at the numbers.

The numbers that came out today about the flow of oil coming out of the Gulf is they're slightly above where they were in February at the beginning of Epic Fury.

Do you think that that moment may be coming, in your view?

Was it currently still being used, even though we haven't had strikes in a while with these bigger bombers? So were they targeting stuff that we still had on the ground? What do you know, Colonel?

I can't confirm or deny whether we were still using it operationally, but my guess is the support equipment at a minimum is still there because we still have ongoing operations.

But I'm not sure about the presence of B-52s, B-1s, or tanker aircraft.

But we do have a combat support wing that is the parent U.S. Air Force wing there.

They run the security forces operation.

And it's my understanding they had increased their force protection condition to Delta, which means a terrorist attack is imminent well before these individuals were reported and caught.

That tells me that the security forces intelligence part of the unit was operating very effectively.

Could that have been something, and that's how we were tracking them, or how do you think we were, again, I know you can't say too much, Colonel.

What do you think of that innovation?

I think it's exceptionally well-done policy, Kurt.

It's being inserted into the promotion system, from what I understand, and it should have a huge play in whether somebody becomes a general or an admiral, no matter what service they're in.

It's following a model from a guy named George C. Marshall and a small team of generals and other mid-level officers that put together something called the Louisiana Maneuvers just before World War II where they actually took their army generals and all of the troops and did a live, on-the-ground, in-person war game in and around Louisiana.

all over the other states that were adjoining them.

They didn't do it on military bases.

They did it out in the countryside exactly the way they would do it in Germany and in Western Europe when the real thing actually happened and we had to go against Hitler and defeat him.

Yeah,

So what else is in this book that helps average Americans so we can get people to not show up at 8% in the primaries? In your district? Was that in your district? Yeah,

that was in my district.

In Mississippi.

In South Mississippi, it certainly was.

And in the presidential year, it was only 10% in the primaries.

So 2% more.

And people are complaining about their congressmen and their state senators and their state legislators in those areas.

Now they've got the Pentagon rushing $20 million in anti-drone technology down there to try to deal with it some of the operators on the other side of the border I guess have gone off to to Ukraine and learned how to use these things as kamikazes so that we're in a much more dangerous spot now than we were 25 years ago when you consider these drones and miniature explosives and small In many

So that they can put in their puppets, right? It was

the GOP's acquiescence that resulted in all these millions of illegals that give this fake asylum here that have come through in the Biden administration.

Who do you think agreed with that? The GOP folks, a lot of those folks on the establishment side, voted for policies that enabled all that stuff.

which is why we're here today talking about this.

You have Mohammed Abdul-Sayed, Democrat nominee for US Senate in Michigan, who is an Islamist and a Marxist.

You have Mondami, the mayor of New York City, the largest financial operation in the world, is an Islamist and a Marxist.

Where did they come from? legal and illegal immigration, birthright citizenship.

So what else is in this book that helps average Americans so we can get people to not show up at 8% in the primaries? In your district? Was that in your district?

How do you think this plays out tomorrow, Colonel?

Look, the president's going to lay out, in my opinion, what matters to the United States of America and the things that don't matter to the United States of America.

His number one priority in his national defense strategy that was published late last year, early this year, is what? Strengthening the Western Hemisphere's security by the United States.

What does that mean? Greenland, Grant.

Greenland, Greenland, Greenland is why that deal was just made.

And no, it's not a deal from 1951 made over.

It's a fantastic deal.

But from a military perspective, can you tell me why that piece of dirt is so important?

So give us your big picture take.

That's a good acknowledgement.

The polls are all over the place, and we've seen actual admissions that some polls have been faked over the last six months to a year, intentionally faked to drive different groups to do different things.

So that's the outing of what we've known being in politics of what polls generally are used to do, unless it's an internal campaign poll.

You're trying to gauge what you need to do from a strategy perspective.

But, you know, I think it's going to be close.

I still believe that the folks that you hear talking every day that, hey, he's lost us and those kind of things, when they look in the mirror and they compare the two choices, one is choices of policies that while are having trouble maintaining their momentum, like prices coming down in certain areas, gas and diesel.

But how did you feel when you saw how Beau French posted that photograph of what he said about the Indian students and the backlash against the Indian community in general?

What was it like that day?

Well, I hate to correct you on the air, but fortunately, military personnel, depending on what service you're in, you're trained for all kinds of emergencies.

And what I saw that day, especially when I got out of the building, was the medics setting up a triage in the first aid area, the Navy guys on fire hoses doing damage control like they're trained to do on the ships.

Army and Air Force doing first aid, identifying classified information, collecting it up, marking aircraft parts, trying to find live people and get them out.

Those are all things we're trained to do in combat.

And even the retirees who are ex-military, you can see that training kicking into action.

I saw it all day on 9-11 as I was working that impact site.

Was there any one moment that sticks in your mind to this day?

So how coincidental is that, that this exercise happened to be getting kicked off on the day of this attack? Or is this just part and parcel to what it's like to be in the Pentagon and the kind of day-to-day or month-to-month or year-to-year work that goes on there?

This was routine.

We do this once a year.

It was the first time that my office, which we were the people that evaluate the exercise and go out and watch the folks conducting the operations to make sure they're following right procedures and policies, obviously nuclear warfare is probably the most sensitive thing that those teams are going to do.

So it was our job to go out and observe them, take notes, give them debriefings.

and those kind of things.

So it was the first time since I'd been in the assignment that we actually had people around the world at all those notes.

So maybe you can help me with this.

position in the Pentagon attack?

At that point, I was a joint staff operations officer in nuclear operations.

So America's big nuclear war game was actually kicking off at the same moment this all was occurring.

And it was a live exercise.

So airplanes and people moving around in that.

So it was very difficult to get a feel to make sure that what we were seeing was real or was it something else to do with the nuclear war game.

So we had to sort that out very quickly, which we did very easily.

And he wasn't even there, but he could have been.

But what is your analysis on where we're at and how that's affecting sentiment?

Well, I voted for President Trump twice because he ran on a platform that I've run on before for U.S. Senate, and that is ending the endless war policies that our country got itself into, really starting in 2001 after 9-11, which the anniversary is just coming up.

And I'm sticking with this president because he hasn't designed an endless war policy.

He's designed an effort to finally take a war that's been going on since I first put the uniform on at age 17 in 1979 – The Iranians declared war on the United States of America.

This is the first president that has the courage to step up and take care of this business and end it.

He's not into doing a 10-, 15-, 20-year war like the people that had come before him in the Republican Party and the Democrat Party.

He wants to end this.

What do you say to that sentiment?

What do you think, Colonel?

Well, let me just put it this way.

On September 10, 2001, I was working in the Pentagon in the world's most powerful military headquarters.

We had the most capable armed forces of any armed force or country on the planet.

And we were still susceptible to a strategic attack.

with no notice because of what? Because of inept intelligence services, because we were not focused on all the right things.

And that's where we're at today.

Forget about Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran and all these other places.

Your thoughts?

Well, I question the casualty numbers, especially that are published on Russia's side, Steve, because of the leak of Classified that showed that the casualty numbers on Ukraine were being deflated and Russia inflated by the U.S. intelligence community.

But having said that, you know, the Russians, as I've said all along, vastly outpower Ukraine.

It doesn't matter what type of technical weapons Ukraine gets.

It doesn't matter how successful they are in deep airborne strikes with drones or long-range missiles and what type of targets they take out.

They just are no match for the vastness of Russia's economic ability, their population, the size of their armed forces.

And I would be amazed that there's Anything more than 40 percent of the young population left inside of Ukraine.

Your thoughts?

So may this help for us, if you would.

Yeah, first of all, I appreciate you helping us cover this story and get the truth out.

You know, as you mentioned, the Washington Post, Mr. Lamont, this cop completely fabricated the narrative of the story.

Now, they use, you know, mealy-mouthed language and legalese, and they throw some of the facts that they got from stolen information off of government data systems online.

into the story so they could stand back and go, oh, no, we stand by our reporting.

And they actually disavowed that they accused us of being an influence operation and being hired to do that, even though it says it right there in the story multiple times in various ways.

It's just absolutely incredible that they would do a smear operation.

And in this case, you have been slimed, in my opinion.

Do you think that'll finally work?

I think the economic pressure, if it's done well and done right, and I think Besant is our best bet in that, is the most likely thing that's going to bring this regime to the point of collapse where somebody on the inside of Iran can actually make a deal.

They're not there yet.

From a military perspective, Dan, we are really good at hitting military targets.

I think it's the right thing to do, as I've said many times.

But we've got to hit their people.

If we're not hitting the commanders... and not just severing their command and control communications nodes, but killing the commanders themselves, then that will not be as effective as it needs to be.

Would that help?

Is it going to work?

Oh, absolutely.

It's going to work.

But none of this works in isolation in and of itself.

Steve, just like we've talked about before, from a logistics perspective, the mechanics of the lines of communication logistically have to be knocked down and kept down in order to starve this force out and make it weaker than it's ever been before.

But this new economic push is only going to add to that.

And we've been saying for quite some time that the Iranians are getting dollars and funds from somewhere beyond their oil that they get their $500 million a day in revenue normally, but is cut off by the US Navy blockade.

And my question would be, Colonel, why did we wait until now? Why didn't we do this three, four, five months ago?