conference. jim was one of the organizers of that event. questions asked answered questions from a young journalism professor there. most easily one of the patient question answers i ve ever met in all my years. patientsaciousness and many years ago made a profound i was on me because getting started with writing research about civil rights history so ioa great deal of personal gratitude to jim. it is exciting to have him come up. during his tenure at the park service, he worked here at fredericksburg. has been with the park service since 1982. in 1988, he landed at chickamauga. 400 given more than lectures, talked to countless young historians. he has spent many years tutoring of civilng generations war buffs. but very few of us working in the field not anyone who has made a greater impact on the study us of a war history as jim. it is my pleasure to introduce to you in man who is truly a ogden. jim [applause] thank you, chris, and i think i m going to have to start off b
deterrence work against a mad man, or a suicidal fanatic? do we need to be thinking about deterrence 2.0 because of that potential lack of rationality on the other side that wouldn t be concerned about the destruction of their country or perhaps they re possessing nuclear weapons and don t have a country to destroy. senator, i think we need to look at deterrence 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and deterrence in the 21st century, i think is fundamentally different than it was in the 20th century. deterrence in the 21st century involves all elements of national power. not just nuclear deterrent. involves space and cyber and conventional forces, it involves offense and defense on the strategic side of the house. you have to look at the integrated defensive capabilities if you re talking about responding to north korea or iran, and that defensive capability because an essential element of our deterrent posture. we also have to think about who we re deterring. and what works. what would what
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[inaudible conversations]. and we re live this morning awaiting remarks from defense secretary ashton carter being interviewed by politico s correspondent mike allen and defense editor, brian bender. should get underway in just a moment. live coverage here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. ladies and gentlemen, the program will begin in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome politico s chief white house correspondent mike allen and politico defense editor, bryan bender. [applause] good morning. thank all of you for recovering from your st. patrick s days festivities to make it out here for a early playbook breakfast. we appreciate. welcome to all of you in live stream land. we re grateful for you tuning in as well. i m grateful being joined by bryan bender. a bunch of you know him.
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