Putin's Choices in Ukraine: Former Top Pentagon Official Mike Vickers
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Mike Vickers, former Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Special Forces officer and CIA operations officer. Vickers and Morell discuss whether and how Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine may have been a gross strategic miscalculation, how and when the West might have deterred his moves, and what future scenarios for the conflict exist. They discuss Putin's options and decision-making and how his pariah status will affect developments domestically and globally.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel, brought to you by |
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| 0:12.0 | Mike Vickers is the former Undersecretary Defense for Intelligence. |
| 0:16.0 | He is also a former Special Forces Officer and a CIA Operations Officer. |
| 0:21.0 | He has been on our show many times before. |
| 0:23.0 | Today, he and I are going to talk about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. |
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