: John Batchelor 09-03 segment 2.mp3 Guest: Colonel Jeff McCausland, United States Army retired artilleryman, CBS News, Dickinson College visiting professor, and Diamond 6 Leadership and Strategy CEO. Pentagon's Evolving Mission and Global Order Colonel J
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
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| 0:24.0 | I'm John Batchel with my good colleague, Colonel Jeff McCawson, CBS News, Dickinson College, |
| 0:29.6 | Diamond Sixth Leadership and Strategy. Jeff acquaints me with a document that is routine from the |
| 0:35.8 | Pentagon about mission, about the overall mission. However, |
| 0:39.8 | we have two instances that suggest that there's more metaphor here than is first visible. |
| 0:47.1 | For example, the airstrike against what we were told was drug smuggling off the coast of Venezuela, |
| 0:53.9 | along with the deployment of three Arlie Burke class destroyers, |
| 0:58.0 | at least, a submarine and a marine expeditionary unit with lots of air |
| 1:02.2 | off the coast of Venezuela. |
| 1:04.3 | At the same time, in the Pacific, Guam is the base for the U.S. Navy. |
| 1:09.8 | But right now, the Philippines are reinforcing their front line with missiles on Luzon and perhaps on Palawan Island, |
| 1:17.6 | and they've opened up a new base somewhere between the water of the North Philippines and Taiwan, |
| 1:23.6 | a base that now will have anti-ship missiles in it. In other words, we're hardening the Philippines in the event of war. |
| 1:31.9 | Jeff, all of these things describe not foreign affairs, |
| 1:36.2 | but very much domestic affairs. |
| 1:39.2 | The Philippines are critical to hold the line outside of the first island chain. |
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