Gen. Christopher Donahue on the current strength of NATO
Brian Kilmeade Show
FOX News Podcasts
4.1 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking news, unique opinions. |
| 0:02.9 | Hear it all on the Brian Kilmead Show. |
| 0:06.9 | Well, when you talk about Christopher Donu, the general, four-star general running the Clay Cucern Army base, |
| 0:13.8 | he might be the most respected military officer retired or active in our country that I've had a chance to talk to and see an action. |
| 0:21.8 | I asked him to come in and talk generally about his command, about what is his responsibility. |
| 0:27.8 | Now, we had to run to Washington, D.C. today, so I asked him to do it earlier. |
| 0:32.3 | Here's what's on his docket, on his things to do list on a daily basis, and what his commission is. |
| 0:37.6 | And when we talk about Africa and we talk about Europe, we talk about General Donogh. |
| 0:42.7 | So you can't come to Europe. You can't come to Germany. And Vizbun in particular and talk to |
| 0:48.4 | the command in charge of Europe and Africa without finding out exactly what that responsibility |
| 0:53.7 | is like. So that's why we |
| 0:54.9 | have four-star General Chris Donnie are you with us. That is his portfolio. That's what he gets up thinking |
| 0:59.2 | about every day. General, thanks so much. In a very simple map, I know it's an unclassified situation. |
| 1:06.5 | Could you give everybody at home a sense of what the type of responsibility is on your shoulders? |
| 1:10.6 | First off, where are we now? Point out. Right now, we're in B-Spotten, Germany, right about here. And that's the command of U.S. Army, Europe, and Africa. Right. Also, NATO land forces. So this command right here basically controls all the land forces for Europe and Africa. And you're talking what numbers? So how much would you say? |
| 1:30.3 | So on the U.S. side to include all of our rotational forces, we have about 60,000 forces out here. |
| 1:35.3 | And then on the NATO side, any of the European 32 members of NATO that give forces over to NATO to fight, we control those. |
| 1:45.7 | That's seven cores. |
| 1:46.9 | So when a country like Finland sees what happened in Ukraine and Sweden, sees what happens in Ukraine, |
| 1:52.3 | they no longer want to be neutral when it comes to NATO. |
| 1:55.1 | What do they add? |
| 1:56.8 | Unbelievable capability. |
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