Here at csis and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event today featuring general john raymond whose command of u. S. Space command, and command of air force Space Command in colorado. We are lucky to have him join us for a public conversation with todd harrison, director of airspace security project here at csis and general raymond is going to speak first and then they will have moderated conversation following by audience q a. There are very few things that can be considered bipartisan in nature in washington. Space and space threats are one of those and so i hope you will join me in welcoming general raymond. [applause] gen. Raymond thank you. I greatly appreciate the invitation and more importantly thanks for your leadership and wise counsel. I always enjoy coming to csis and had to apologize to the cas csis team because i always get more out of these engagement them i give. I hope we get to that, and have really good conversations and things i could take away and continue to w
Good morning, everyone. I am kathleen hicks. I direct the program here. It is my pleasure to welcome you to this event today. Commander of u. S. Space command and air force base in colorado. We are so lucky to have him joining us for a public conversation with Todd Harrison who directs our airspace security. I almost gave you my job. General raymond willau speak fit and then they will have a moderated conversation followed by audience q and day. Very few things that can be considered bipartisan in nature in washington. The concern over space and space threats are one of those. I hope you will join me in welcoming him. [applause] thank you. I greatly appreciate the invitation. More importantly, thank you for your leadership and wise counsel. I always enjoy coming c here. I had to apologize to the team because i always get more out of these engagements then i give. And i continue to work on. About three years ago, a little over three years ago, right before he took the commander position
Airspace security project here at csis and general raymond is going to speak first and then they will have moderated conversation following by audience q a. There are very few things that are considered bipartisan nature in washington by concern over space and space threats are one of those and so i hope you will join me in welcoming general raymond. [applause] thank you. Greatly appreciate the invitation and more importantly thanks for your leadership and wise counsel. I always enjoy coming to cis and had to apologize to the cas team because i always get more out of these engagement that idea. A great, id hope will get to that, have a really good conversation and are some things i could take away and continued to work on. I will tell you about three years ago just a little over three years ago before it took the air force Space Command as commander job csis held a dinner series, dr. Hamre hosted a dinner series what we brought folks in to talk about the challenges in space. I always m
Bookstore in q2 this evenings event in camillus dash to enhance and improve civic life. We have some events over the next few months that has National Book award finalist. For retail more information sign up for our email list. We have cspan book tv with us here please know you will be recorded and wait for the microphone and i like to take a moment to say thanks and so congratulations. [applause] now im pleased to introduce duncan white at the director studies at the university. And as a historian serving as a faculty associate of eurasian studies at harvard university. With history or literature here to discuss cold warriors. So we are so pleased to have them here tonight. Please me to welcome duncan white. [applause] we have five different microphones but i never met a microphone i did not like. Congratulations i love that we are presenting on the day of your publication. With 20 interviews this morning. So you call that a group biography so what is the hook. So the idea was to have
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