HEADLINE: Global Tensions Escalate: Nuclear Drills, Urban Warfare, and Naval Probes Amidst Shifting Alliances GUEST NAME: Jeff McCausland SUMMARY: Russia conducts tactical nuclear drills with Belarus as drones probe Polish airspace, while Israel engages i
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
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GUEST NAME: Jeff McCausland
SUMMARY: Russia conducts tactical nuclear drills with Belarus as drones probe Polish airspace, while Israel engages in difficult urban warfare in Gaza, and the US flexes naval power against Venezuela, all against a backdrop of potential regional miscalculations. Russia's Zapad 2025 includes tactical nuclear training with Belarus, as unidentified drones probe Polish territory. Israel faces six months of challenging urban combat in Gaza, learning from Fallujah. The USconducts naval exercises near Venezuela, potentially aimed at destabilizing Maduro. Regional flashpoints in Syria risk accidental escalation between Turkey and Israel.
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:36.6 | I welcome my good colleague, Colonel Jeff McCausen, the United States Army retired artillerymen. |
| 0:40.5 | CBS News, visiting Professor Dickinson College, |
| 0:48.5 | Diamond Sixth Leadership and Strategy, and the co-author with a book that is informative about nuclear weapons, |
| 0:52.3 | entitled Tactical Nuclear Weapons and NATO, Once Upon a Time. I learned that in 2007, Russia rejected signing on to the |
| 0:59.7 | very important conventional armed forces in Europe Treaty of 1990, effect of 1992. What that means is |
| 1:08.1 | the news that came in these last days that the Zapad operation includes a tactical nuke training session between the Belarusian and Russian forces with tactical nuclear weapons forward deployed in Belarus is part of Russia's not only saber rattling, but it looks very much |
| 1:30.6 | part of their war planning. Jeff, a very good evening to you. You wrote the book about |
| 1:35.8 | technical nuclear weapons in NATO. Does NATO have a comparable exercise to what we've witnessed |
| 1:41.5 | at Zapat? Are they both sides rattling sabres at each other? I thought |
| 1:46.0 | we put that genie back in the bottom. Good evening to you. |
| 1:49.4 | Do you, John. NATO still conducts exercises and planning on the employment of so-called |
| 1:54.8 | tactical or theater nuclear weapons, as part of what's called the nuclear planning group, |
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