Infrastructure were flooded or destroyed during that storm. And in my research i spent a lot of time at the National Hurricane center, and the meteorologists there who were incredibly talented, kept telling me the same thing over and over again and that was were just not very good at this. Were just still not very good at forecasting and predicting these storms. Still not very good at preparing on the front end for the kind of havoc that is wreaked by those storms and saw hat with hurricane marie contract and hurricane hugo, and i was thinking about thes of infrastructure and prediction and how it is that we respond to Natural Disaster, it occurred to me that for all that is powerful. A hurricane, theyre nowhere near our most powerful for you think of the sheer explosive power quicks are exponentially stronger. Started to think, how do we prepare for those sorts of Natural Disasters and to what degree as a country, as nation, are we prepared for senate what i found was really kind of c
Good morning, everyone. I want to welcome all of you to this discussion on russia and syria, implications for the United States and turkey. We have a great panel to discuss most recent turkish incident, the downing of the russian jet, as well as experts who can provide a broader perspective on u. S. Russia relations and see how that is going Going Forward how the relationship between the west and russia will evolve but in particular in the context of syria. As you know, russian intervention, military intervention, direct intervention in syria has complicated the dynamics on the ground. There were expectations this could perhaps lead to some contribution from russia to the fight against isis, but lets say that russia has been at the very least ambivalent about that. Not entirely clear what russia is doing in syria. It seems to be targeting the opposition against the assad regime so russia seems to be helping the assad regime and also doing some operations against isil, but well discuss
Is identified . Are they taken out or given a pass . Thank you for your question. We dont talk about rules of engagement obviously in the tactics and techniques and procedures that go with that. I would just answer that and say im comfortable with the authorities i have today that i can prosecute the mission both from a ct perspective and from a train, advise and assist perspective, and also protect the forces i have. I cant go into the rules i understand. In this environment. I would other like to have a conversation or some kind of followup at that time takes about that. Absolutely. And then also, with this new aumf whats the difference going to be in how you can engage isis now . Do you see further gains more advantages than you do now . I havent seen the final written document that has gone through. Ive glanced through pieces of. I know theres no geographical boundaries which would happen in afghanistan. Id have to do a more detailed look. Right now i have the authorities that i ne
Committee will come to order. Today the House Armed Services Committee Meets to discuss the ongoing conflict in afghanistanful we have been engaged military information afghanistan for 14 years. The predictions this would be a long conflict have proven accurate. While there have been setbacks in recent years, theres also cause for cautious optimism. United states and its allies especially the Afghan Forces, have made some meaningful gains. A counterinsurgency is one of the toughest types of war a academicracy can fight. Its been difficult but not impossible and both our future security and the future of the Afghanistan Afghan people depends on our success. People in afghanistan have niksch my opinion the best opportunity for a stable relatively peaceful country. Together with the cooperation of our allies and the kabul government we bail 352,000 strong Afghan National Security Force. Building a capable Security Force takes time. The nsf is growing in ability and capabilities. Now is a
Rajiv has the rare gift of being able to folk coast on shop palm details. He paints a broad pictures. He listens more than he takes. He speaks to generals frankly, but so do the grunts and the other minor characters who drive the plot of any major story. This month marks the tenth anniversary of george w. Bushs invasion of iraq. Nothing written or said better explains the resulting folly than rajivs book, life in the emrad city, the green zone. And yesterday again, rajiv, gives us detail, the new book, Little America. Right now these days, a shortterm sequester to find 80 billion, but over the next decade we have to scrape up three to five trillion, which is just about what we managed to squander on an iraq war that left so many dead and so many more people who hate us. So lets start there. In the front piece of imperial city, he quotes t. E. Lawrence who advised his british superiors in 1917, do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the arabs do it tolerably than you do i