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All our military operations, they are all based on very careful planning, reconnaissance, intelligence and of course assessment of risks.
Since returning back to office again, Trump has ordered an increase in the numbers of these CIA reconnaissance drone flights that are taking place over Mexico, while he's also ordered the US military to step up its own separate surveillance flights along the southern border and along Mexico's Pacific coast.
Well, in early February, a US Air Force RC-135V Rivet Joint Reconnaissance Aircraft carefully threaded the needle of international waters and airspace to fly deep within the Gulf of California, directly by the Mexican state of Sinaloa, home to one of Mexico's largest and most influential cartels, the Sinaloa Cartel.
Okay, Karen, activate Enhanced Reconnaissance Mode.
And it appears on Sunday they launched from multiple places inside Russia, the key here being inside Russia, attacks on Russian air bases, housing, strategic military aircraft, things that would go into the sky for surveillance and monitoring purposes and reconnaissance above the skies of Russia and over Ukraine to gather intelligence.
Thursday, Chief Fennessey let us join a reconnaissance flight so we could see the destruction from above.
Not enough for an air raid on a major city and presumed, they were merely on a reconnaissance mission.
"The reconnaissance, the coordination, the preparation for these kind of attacks generally
Controllers of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Reconnaissance is actually finding out all you can about the target, all the different variables, checking their websites, trying to look to see what technology they have, looking at their location, seeing if you can find blueprints online, seeing if you can see pictures from social media of what the direction of the flows or what people are doing, what their security looks like.
They are able to get behind enemy lines within very close proximity to targets, obtain very important reconnaissance that they can then send back to their units to be used for planning purposes.