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Good evening, everyone. Thanks for joining us this evening. I am richard fontaine, the president for the new american security. Its a pleasure to welcome all of you tonight for the celebration of the new book upon its publication sites of the memoir a modern war and the practice. If you come to these events before and youve read our publication, that the work is no doubt known. He was the second president and has left very large shoes that ive been attempting to fill since then. He serves as a h...

Feel free to come forward if you would like. Good afternoon. Im peter bergen and peter bergen and i run into National Security foundation and its my great pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend Michael Waltz who has this wonderful new book out warrior diplomat a green berets battles from washington to afghanistan which really outlines mikes unusual career both being someone who is creating policy in the white house and the south asia adviser to Vice President cheney and carrying out the p...

It is a pleasure to welcome all of you tonight for the celebration of john nagls new book. Knife fights a memoir of modern war in theory and practice 11. His work is well known to you. He was the second president of c cnas and he now serves as ninth head master of the school in pennsylvania and is visiting professor to college of london. Johns book knife fights a memoir of modern war in theory and practice eleven i saw in proposali saw in proposal form a while ago. Book on counterinsurgency and ...

Of questions that feel a little complementary to me. One may even partially answer the other. First one is how do you balance religious freedom against islams desire to take over the world . The second one is, given your description of what islam is and does, how can it be considered a religion . Thats a very good question. Number one, i think we should define in america what a religion should be. And ill tell you what my definition will be. A religion will be given the respect in america to be ...

I really appreciate that question because actually when we develop caring across generations with those two demographic shifts in my. That there is enormous opportunity for us to think about how we are we being a whole new social contract in the fabric of our nation weeding and. And the truth is i want to go back to this point about multigenerational relationship and the imports of multigenerational relationships that help bridge a lot of the gaps. I think weve worked really hard in the campaign...

Author sean mcfate is next on booktv. The associate professor of the National Defense university and former military mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today. He says we are headed towards a future that will resemble the middle ages hiring mercenaries to fight in wars is the norm. [applause] thank you. Thank you to Atlantic Council for hosting us and thank you for making at out on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private mili...

Leadership that we quite often consider quite acceptable because they are usually quite effective. They create the kind of units that perform according to the standards at the end of the day. Why should we fire them if theyre effective as officers. While actually they are producing unit cultures that in the end may become really problematic. Some experiences with the worst cases of units misbehavior leading to crimes or war crimes, for example. We have the business literature out there supportin...

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Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body...

There are a few here who are from there as well. Its hard to listen to you talk about ashley. I see people getting emotional in the audience. And im like hold it together. I did the vso mission. I would now start with you because youre most recent and then i would just work out. What attracted you to the mission and who first told you about it . Initially i heard about it with cst2 was the first time i heard about it. And i had wanted to go then and my commander wouldnt let me and my commanders ...