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Welcome the buck brief everybody very special guest on this edition of the program

We are joined right now by Bernard Hudson

He's been 28 years in the CIA's director of operations and retired as the chief of counterterrorism

Where he headed the agency's global response to terrorists threats he retired in 2017

Served as a fellow at Harvard University as in and is in the international drone industry now Bernard

honored to have you here sir a great to talk to you buck a senior brother from Langley if you will I had I did a shorts

Then they're myself a long time ago. It was an interesting place even a short

It's a long time

It felt like it. I will say at the time. So we should we should talk offline about some of that another time

So Bernard you're you're very

Well placed to bring your expertise in your background to this issue of

What's going to go on now in terms of the Israeli fight in Gaza?

What are your expectations? How long will this last what kind of tactics are we going to see just sort of walk us through

How you think this is going to play out in the days and weeks ahead?

Yeah, great questions. So I think the Israeli response is going to be

going to be based on three things that failed on the 7th of October the first thing that failed was deterrence

the second thing that failed was

Advanced warning the third thing that failed was

Forward defense at the border

All three of these were things that Israel's national security strategy is always dependent on

They need to have a sense in the minds of their enemies that attacking Israel

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