This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Gordon Chang, at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host,

and we're watching very carefully through magic how Moscow sees the U.S. Air Force's conduct over Iran in these last

days, how Beijing sees the U.S. Air Force's conduct over Iran in these last days, and to help

us understand how professionals around the world, but especially those two

adversaries see it, we welcome General Blaine Holt, United States Air Force retired. He's

helping us understand not only how well or not the Air Force performed in its activities of

both deception and strike,

but also the eyes of his opposite command situation in Beijing and Moscow.

Blaine, a very good day to you.

First of all, in praise of the U.S. Air Force, this is perfect, Blaine.

They'll teach this for years.

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you both.

I will tell you that war colleges, 100 years from now will come back to this operation as one where all the elements of air power that the United States possessed this year came together

beautifully, a crescendo of training that across over 500 airmen, you know, decades and decades

and decades of training. But if you think about it, we've really been hard on our military over the past four years

with the infusion of politically correct social ideas of woke, DEI, and the like.

And a lot of us all, me included, wondering what has been the impact to our readiness, the impact to our ability to take care of the mission,

and what messages that send to our adversaries? Well, 17,000 variables in a mission that involved a hundred and twenty-five aircraft,

75 pieces of ordinance, a joint operation with the Navy and cruise missiles, a tanker

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