GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Lebanon where theIAW is destroying rocket launchers...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 #LEBANON: Air war Guest: Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
9:15-9:30 #PRC: ICBM over East Asia Guest: Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
9:30-9:45 #IRAN: Hezbollah on the back foot Guest: Behnam Ben Taleblu, FDD
9:45-10:00 #IRAN: Brokering Russian anti-ship missiles to the Houthis Guest: Behnam Ben Taleblu, FDD
SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 #PRC: Testing DF-41 mobile launch from Hainan Guests: Peter Huessy, National Institute for Deterrence; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
10:15-10:30 #MALAYSIA: Manufacturing boom Guests: Charles Ortel, On The Money; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
10:30-10:45 #Philippines: Confrontations with the PLA Guests: James Fanell, co-author of "Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure" and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4891071-philippines-sabina-shoal-china/
10:45-11:00 #JAPAN: Hawks Guests: Lance Gatling, principal of Nexial Research based in Tokyo; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://thehill.com/opinion/4890957-china-japan-missile-attack/
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 1/4: The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza by Seth J. Frantzman (Author), Mark Dubowitz (Foreword)
11:15-11:30 2/4: The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza
11:30-11:45 3/4: The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza
11:45-12:00 4/4: The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza
FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 #FRANCE: Hunting Season, Wednesday: sheltering in the copse Guest: Simon Constable, Occitanie
12:15-12:30 #RUSSIA: Sanctions busting oil in Dubai and Mumbai Guest: Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution
12:30-12:45 #MOON: Intuitive Machines for moon lander Guest: Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
12:45-1:00 am #MARS: Curiosity wheel anomalies Guest: Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in Lebanon. The air war continues. |
| 0:05.0 | Destroy the launchers. And you destroy the ability of Hezbollah to rain rockets down on |
| 0:12.3 | Tel Aviv as well as the north of Israel. There is |
| 0:16.0 | talk of ground war. It is talk. There are anecdotes of reservists being |
| 0:22.2 | notified to show up at such and such a date. |
| 0:26.6 | It looks right now to be three divisions on the north ready to go, but that is not enough for the scale of such a contest. |
| 0:37.7 | There were five divisions for Gaza, three reserve, two reservists, and three regular, I believe. |
| 0:45.0 | The 98th is the big one with the commandos. |
| 0:48.0 | Don't know much more than that. |
| 0:51.0 | The ground war would be a completely different scale than Hamas. |
| 0:57.0 | Also, in under preparation, evacuation Nios, to evacuate the civilians. |
| 1:04.0 | A conversation with a colleague, |
| 1:07.0 | the Biden administration did so poorly in Afghanistan. |
| 1:11.0 | They were anticipating, improving their presentation, especially these weeks before the election. |
| 1:18.0 | There are tens of thousands of people who could be evacuated, dual citizens, people living in parts of Lebanon. |
| 1:25.0 | The UK is already preparing evacuation. |
| 1:31.0 | They have troops on Cyprus. So depending on where the war is going, there will be |
| 1:36.5 | a large story for weeks. And then an ICBM over Asia. |
| 1:45.0 | Comments by my colleagues, Lance Kaplan, James Finel, Gordon Chang. |
| 1:50.0 | China's not filed an IBM like that, |
| 1:52.0 | ICBM like that for 44 years. Why now? |
| 1:56.0 | There are reasons. |
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