Army secretary on U.S.’s involvement in Venezuela and Ukraine’s use of drones

WASHINGTON (CBS, KYMA) - Dan Driscoll, Secretary of the Army, spoke with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about the U.S.'s involvement in Venezuela.

According to Brennan, President Donald Trump said he "sort of" made up his mind on Venezuela, prompting her to ask if the Venezuelan army poses any threat to the U.S. if action is taken, to which Secretary Driscoll said:

"I think that the President and Secretary of War have spent a lot of time thinking about what is the best thing they can do for the American people, and I can speak from the Army's perspective, which is, we have a lot of training in that part of the world. We're reactivating our jungle school in Panama, we would be ready to act on whatever the president and Sec. War needed."

During the interview, Brennan and Driscoll talked about Ukraine's use of drones and what the United States can learn from their use.

When Brennan asked what Driscoll meant when he referred to Ukraine as the "only Silicon Valley of warfare," as well as asked him if Ukraine is really ahead of the U.S. on innovation, Driscoll said:

"I think if you look at what's happening, Operation Spider's Web in Russia, the Ukrainians used probably a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of drones and took out almost $10 billion worth of equipment in Russia. And Russia's in that fight. And so I think what is amazing about our country is we are able to recognize where we need to innovate quickly. And what we're doing for drones, completely differently, I think, than we have done as an army in probably 50 or 60 years, is we are welcoming in American industry. So we just did an AI war game where we invited 15 of the top CEOs in the nation. They were worth probably $18 trillion in enterprise value. And we said, howdy, can you please help us? What do you have in your tech innovation pipeline to help us with data in contested environments? How do we do logistics 6,000 miles away if we're facing an enemy who's trying to contest us? And we are working with them, no joke, daily, to basically take their innovation and apply it to this problem."

To watch more of Brennan's interview with Driscoll, click here.