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General ham let me start with you. Sort of going in proposition with africom in many ways is youre not going to have large amounts of american troops under your command on the ground, if any. Did you feel at times that you were a general in charge of the contractor army . No, not at all. There is a proper role i think for the contractors but theres also a proper role for the uniformed military. Like the other Combatant Commanders and the Service Chiefs i was part of a discussion with the chairma...

Technology anymore to make a television . Guest yes. Well, most televisions right now are computers. I mean, there are tvs in this booth that are ten cores processers, and all the integrated functionality for the web, streaming stuff. 4k is a huge thing, so those are the big buzzword 4g and old sets. Host i see behind us it says 8k. Guest yeah, were already beyond 4k now. These are basically, prototypes. Theres one sharp tv of thats coming out thats going to be simulated 8k, but what were talkin...

Deployments and we ended up producing hours and getting that next set of deployers ready to go we ended up delaying the deployment of carrier. When you talk about the Global Response force our ability to train our folks and their ability to have that next set ready is very much tied to the budgetary topline. Right now we have two carriers ready to go. We always have two to go. We are building up to a larger Surge Capacity but clearly with sequestration our ability to maintain that projection for...

The cbo. It is very clear that repealing the Affordable Care act will actually increase the deficit and it is acknowledged in here by accepting a point of order on anything that increases the deficit as a result of the Affordable Care act. We need honesty and budgeting. If this budget repeals the Affordable Care act all the services for 16. 4 million men and women children who receive health care for the first time maybe other and we know that repealing miss will increase the deficit and we need...

Moving money and putting off unnecessary programs and delaying modernization but those cuts and delays we will do with next year with the return now of sequestration and added to the cuts already would be a back breaker for the United States army and i would argue the military at large. Were doing everything we can. Just basic commitments to save normal security. Yes we have a presence in afghanistan but those are not big operations. That is dated day commitments. We are mortgage eight our readi...

You mentioned this earlier, but i think another issue for this generation is the barrier to entry for running for office or participating in the elected political life. And you know, from my experience this generation looks at life differently than others, so running for office or the hill may not be the best way to participate in service. I would be interested to hear what you have to say. What are the Biggest Barriers to participate in politics and why are young people not doing it more . Peop...

At the scowcrofts school of diplomacy i think it is called. So there is certainly that. What effect they have had so far is hard to know and i dont explore that but he feels very fortunate to have lived a life a life that he hasnt feels that he has to pass these down and has one daughter, one granddaughter. He is intent on trying to nurture especially at the Aspen Strategy Group the Atlantic Council and getting people and meant touring them. Most of these people are probably still fairly young 4...

Happens. I wish i were. But i wont be around when it happens. Do i see any hope . Yes. And i list that. I will just give awe few examples that have give you a few examples that caught the attention of the press. If you live in saudi arabia, you grow up saudi arabia you must have heard of this man kashkari who starts to tweet of his doubts of the prophet. Because of his technology he is able to share not only with saudis but anyone who can read and write and has access to the internet in the isla...

Tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing knee jerk reaction that simply did not get what i thought was right. So the genesis of this book was not in any way a whistleblower book or etc. , it was really to pack some salience around a very policemen call issue. And that is the origins of polemical issue. Now, before i begin the actual argument in the book, i want to lay out a few disruptive facts from a decade of war. First is using, for example, 2010 numbers, the pentagon spent 366 billion w...

Up next sean mcfate and associate professor at the National Defense university and former mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in ports around the world today. He says we are headed toward a future that will resemble the middle ages by hiring mercenaries to fight in wars was the norm. Thank you for hosting us and thank you for making it out today on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private military force in International Relations today and i wrote thi...