NATO: NEEDING COMMON WEAPONS PLANNING. COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND , USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCO
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
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| 0:25.8 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:39.3 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:45.8 | I welcome my good colleague, Colonel Jeff McCawson, United States Army retired, |
| 0:51.4 | our tetheryman, CBS News, visiting Professor Dickinson College, Diamond Sixth Leadership and Strategy, CEO. |
| 0:53.8 | We go immediately to NATO, meeting over these last days, both online and in person. |
| 1:00.5 | NATO is looking at a problem not immediately Ukraine, although that's a piece of it. |
| 1:06.0 | But over the next few years, how to prepare for what the general secretary, Mr. Rudy says, is a Russian |
| 1:13.5 | attack on a NATO nation that would be unambiguously a violation of the treaty and oblige |
| 1:20.0 | everyone to participate in a counter-answer. However, Jeff, a very good evening to you. Logistics, |
| 1:26.6 | you teach. Logistics. That's wins wars. Right now, |
| 1:29.7 | NATO's logistics are hard to summarize other than the fact that it doesn't work. They have |
| 1:35.7 | different tanks, and they're now involved in arguing over a new fighter jet, not an F-35, our version. |
| 1:46.3 | The headline, French and German leaders aim to diffuse tensions over fighter jet, disputes over governance and workload plague weapons |
| 1:52.9 | program that is crucial to European defense ambitions. That is not about the Russians. That's |
| 1:59.3 | about the French and the Germans and NATO entirely. |
| 2:04.3 | You were a veteran in NATO and you saw this as well. Is it something that can be settled or is it just |
| 2:11.7 | going to be part of the problem of involving so many different European military powers. Good evening to you. |
| 2:18.9 | Good news, John. It can be solved, but it's a very complex problem that so far NATO has |
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