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I unfortunately have to bring this to a close now but you can join us afterwards for conversation and a reception outside of this room. The book is available for purchase and i suspect citing as well. I would invite you all to come back next week when Heather Cox Richardson of Boston College will be speaking on march 2 on her new book to make men free a history of the republican party. My thanks to our audience and thanks to professor spero for a very engaging talk. [applause] thank you. With co...

National Defense University and former military mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today. He says that were headed toward a future that will resemble the middle ages when hiring mercenaries to fight in wars was the norm. Thank you peter. Thank you to the Atlantic Council for hosting this 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 wro...

Hypothetical capability we hope we may need but is in use today. I no the argument is there are other aircraft that can do this mission. Yet when i talk i think there are situations where the a10 cannot be replaced by existing aircraft at least in capabilities. Personally i am not ready to say that i am ready to get rid of it. I appreciate the Ranking Member very much the perspective and service and i recognize that there is a cost will. Yet through what we are doing today we need to keep this a...

Coming up on cspan2 the House Armed Services Committee Works on the Defense Budget for next year. And we will take you live to the senate where work continued on a bill that would require the Obama Administration to submit any Nuclear Agreement with iran to congress for review. A government report alleges Homeland Security official while serving as head of the u. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services gave special access to the visa program. Today he testifies before the house Homeland Security...

Todays secretary, to the president , too i says congress and our lives less than 490,000 men and women in uniform. Absolutely appeared to plan with god now takes an active army of 450000. When they make sure you understand the question. In the absence of sequestration with sequestration requires, which you otherwise see a circumstance in which you recommend the 450,000 450,000 personnel to the secretary . Is there a scenario in which theyll look good for the safety and security of our country . ...

Coordination, information sharing, threat information sharing, and information sharing about best practices and best results. Thank you. Yeah thank you. And very quickly we are very open to trying to play a stronger role in trying to assist these conversations across different modes of transportation. I would say that just the first thing weve got to do in each of these modes is get the modes, you know within the modes having the discussion because there will be things unique to automobiles or t...

Pure navy bill, it will devastate some part of the navy either our shipbuilding or readiness or something, because the high cost of these and because we dont recapitalize them very often. If you look back in history there is precedent for either making this a National Program because it is the most survivable leg of our deterrence or building another ship to accommodate it. The freedom in the early 60s to late 60s and the maritime maybe in 72 it was increased pretty dramatically to build these s...

The transatlantic space to support ukraine. And i do think that our leadership in this is recognized. We are having as spirited a debate as is going on theres also a transatlantic debate so that question gets asked also in our diplomacy. But europeans come at it from both sides, depending upon where they sit. With regard to ukraine and the things that need to be done, and that has been appreciated, very much by my by most of us, i would have at this point significant difficulty coming to work ea...

An Army Aviation Restructuring Initiative both of those combine to be 6 billion. If we dont get those reforms. Were going to have to find 6 billion, and find another half a billion for brac, thats who it costs every year for excess infrastructure. If we dont get those things, were going to have to find that money somewhere. Great thank you. For navy and marine corps, it is slowing down the growth of pay and compensation. Its we simply have to do that. We are at the point where were choosing betw...

Sitting around, and we were writing regulations for i dont remember if it was the Fair Housing Act or the housing part of the americans with disabilities act, but anyway we were there and we were deciding you know what the rule should be for employers when it came to ramps and door knobs and sunken living rooms and all kinds of stuff like that. And it was appalling. You know, none of us knows at that table knew anything about the business of how to build an apartment complex. Why were we sitting...