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This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Battles with Gordon Chang.

I'm Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-hosts, and we're very pleased to be welcomed on this day by General Blaine Holt, United States Air Force, retired to comment on what we believe we've learned over these last days of the exchange of weaponry between the warring parties, the state of Israel and the Islamic

Republic of Iran.

General, your overall assessment of the conduct of the Israeli Air Force and the defenses of

the Islamic Republic.

Let's take the Air Force first.

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