This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

I welcome Colonel Jeff McCawson, the United States Army retired artillerymen.

CBS News, visiting Professor Dickinson College and

CEO of Diamond Sixth Leadership and Strategy. Venezuela. There is a very powerful fleet between

Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Federico is the headquarters of the operation that right now is

exercises. Roosevelt Rhodes, an old naval base, back to the 19th century

and its uses. However, the Gerald R. Ford has arrived. That's a super, super carrier. That's the

number one in the fleet right now with its battle group, joining a fatilla of missile stuffed

Arly Burke destroyers. There's one cruiser.

The Marines are present in an M.A.U.

And the Air Force has shown its cards over these last weeks.

So there's a force ready to take on Mars. It's going to take on an army that has no experience whatsoever fighting anything comparable to that firepower.

Very few do. However, that is the

beginning of the story. And as we learned over these last decades, the end of the story has to do

with insurgency, counterinsurgency, and IEDs, and retreat by the U.S. military. Jeff, a very good evening to you. Welcome back. Day one,

day two, the U.S. wins. Day 50, day 60. Who's in charge? Good evening to you, Jeff.

Good evening, to you, Joe. That's the $64 question. Of course, that assumes that we have defined clearly the mission.

And right now, we haven't defined the mission because so far, at least, the administration keeps talking about the interruption of illegal narcotics coming through the Caribbean.

But the force that we have deployed that you accurately described is far superior to one that's required for that mission and far different

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