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Brian Kilmeade Show

Adm. Mark Montgomery: We need to hit more than drug boats to stop the cartels

Brian Kilmeade Show

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3.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

This show proudly sponsored by Real American Freestyle Wrestling.

0:05.0

Let's bring in my next guest.

0:06.1

He's Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, Senior Director of the Center for Cyber and Technology, Innovation for Freedom of Defense of Democracy.

0:12.8

Welcome back, Admiral.

0:14.6

Hey, thank you for having me, Brian.

0:15.9

So, Admiral, it turns out we got called out by some of our allies.

0:19.5

They don't like, they're not going to share intelligence with us uh in off the off the coast of the caribbean their caribbean properties

0:25.9

or um anywhere in the region how do you feel about that they don't like what we're doing with

0:30.5

the ships the those boats that are going uh moving drugs throughout the area you know so

0:36.0

this is interesting i'm going to break it up into i think i personally would attack these boats in different way, but I'm not the president and the Secretary of War, so they get to do it the way they want. But the sharing of intel, if you're concerned that we're not hitting the right ships, not sharing the intel with us is the exact opposite thing to do. It makes no sense to me the good allies.

0:55.2

Look, do we hit, do we have collateral damage on strikes, you know, not routinely, but on occasion?

1:01.9

Yes.

1:03.1

How do you avoid that?

1:04.3

Good intelligence.

1:05.5

So if you think you're producing good intelligence as a European partner in the United States,

1:09.9

the exact wrong attitude is to pull that intelligence from the United States as we're conducting sophisticated strikes against these narco networks.

1:18.6

You think we're being effective?

1:20.6

I actually think we're shooting arrows and not to archer. If we want to be effective, we need to place some precision

1:30.5

guided munitions into the factories producing the cocaine. You know, the pace comes over from

1:36.3

Columbia. I think it was made into powder in Venezuela and then shipped out to the United States,

1:41.7

these islands, in Europe. We should strike it there.

1:44.8

I mean, you would do a hundred boats worth of damage in one strike.

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