Good evening. The show begins tonight with the NATO meeting in Washington.

Going Global. They've invited Tokyo, Seoul, Manila, Canberra, Wellington, have invited all the suspects from the Indo-Pacific to go global.

Will they move their headquarters?

No, it'll stay in Brussels.

Conversation with Jeff McCauslin of CBS News.

It begins to resemble the map of the Second War.

Europe first decided the commanders and chiefs of the British and American armies.

However, Ernest King, the CNO of the Navy as well as the Admiral and Chief, decided that

he alone would do the Pacific. It looks like the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps and the

Air Force will take the Pacific leaving Europe to tend to the Russian front.

It looks that way.

It's a little early, and that's kind of science fiction, but it looks that way. We move now to what they really

need in Ukraine, not big planning, but artillery shells, ones that the Russians can't defeat, the old-fashioned kind, and dumb ones,

not the magic that can be blocked with electronic warfare.

And then we come to a conversation with Benham-Ben Taliblu about the expanding missile and

drone manufacturing in Iran.

Why the administration ever wanted to deal with Iran?

Well, it's all a mystery.

It'll come out in the big books that nobody will read, but everybody will be obliged to keep on their bookshelves.

At the same time, Benham and I discuss the Huthies who are not Iranians and

not Palestinians. They're Huthies of North Yemen. They have some very sophisticated anti-ship missiles and they're using them.

Benham says this is a smart group and they're ready to shake people down. Right now they're recommending that the Gaza War stop and

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