Ron DeSantis actually said...

"When you have very restrictive rules of engagement, you rely on having all this wonderful intelligence."

"If you are engaged in a stabilization, counterinsurgency-type mission, and you have these ridiculously restrictive rules of engagement, you are going to lose."

"I think we have had rules of engagement that have just been too restrictive from the very beginning."

"I think the concern, though, is that you can do everything right, but given the lack of data, the lack of information we have on people who are being pulled out of a very, very difficult circumstance,..."