The Ohio State University and senior fellow at Cato Institute. Finally, Jackie Schneider at stanford university. Thank you very much for the introduction. I am grateful for events hosted back in the before days. I was able to meet with colleagues and talk about ideas that make their way into this book eventually. Im grateful to be on our panel like this, i think i cited most, if not all of you in this book. It is my privilege to share this with you. This book comes out of my personal experiences in uniform in the u. S. Navy so i thought i would start with this. The first is back in 1999, my first job in the navy, i was a targeted officer working at the u. S. Headquarters. A short air campaign against the modern state ended with no fatalities to a lot of people, this looks like a big Success Story for technology, new american way of war. Revolutionary wars but we made a lot of mistakes including blowing up the chinese industry. This was a mistake that was coordination failures, lots of
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I well and welcome the Hudson Institutes dialogue foreignpolicy series. Im walter need your fellow at Hudson Institute is my pleasure to be joined by a Sabrina Carter the chief Foreign Policy advisers for the Vice President and bank and former deputy secretary of state and deputy of National Secretary National Security adviser. During his career mr. Thomas lane has held a number of distinguished government positions. He was National Security adviser to Vice President biden during io bomb administration but also served as the senate staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008 and the National Security Council Staff during the clinton administration. During his time at the state department mr. Blinken played an instrument to world the diplomatic effort to counter ice is pretty worked on the global refugee crisis and rebalance of asia. His a contributing opinion writer for the near times and the Global Affairs analyst for cnn. Its good to see you and thank