Discuss those achievements tonight and their biography about him is called the of last warrior. And he is also the author of several books of history and strategy including the army and vietnam. He received his ph. D. From harvard. Barre is a senior fellow firms strategic assessments with a great body a scholar of the work and prior to joining was that the program of analysis and served in the u. S. Air force and holds five and a masters in philosophy. It will be moderated by jeffrey was an associate professor in claremont he teaches the war on terror with international economy. Ladies and gentlemen our speakers. [applause] first we hope disobeyed an exciting it conversation. The longer version so those who dont know who enter marshall is. So tell us felt that intellectual blair grey biographies. Over the years it came to appreciate the us assessment starting from their early 70s as an artifact of the cold war we both became persuaded it had the authority and the value even higher than today. So because they tend to be very secretive the nature of the work is not the sort of thing youd like to see on the front page of the washington post, and many people who work and the pentagon in hopes that analysis will continue in the future so they can continue to use the tool we decided it was important to write this book. Also there isnt a lot known but there is a known about a lot of things. [laughter] but we felt the story needed to be told the individual had a level of influence on Senior Defense officials outside the pentagon to thought about our competition with the soviet union and with the cold war the typing would find ourselves and our need to think about that so we could anticipate problems when you live in a dangerous world first call view and 94 in september so a child of the depression and remarkable and is a remarkable individual has a bachelors degree but his scores were so high that University Chicago talking after world war ii soviet semesters of economics been no bachelors degree. [laughter] he attracted the attention of great people so at the university of chicago during world war ii he was ruled ineligible for the draft because of a heart condition so he went to work in the weapons plant but he is working in the metals shop and then day haul off marshall so with that order of magnitude with university of chicago who heads up winning the nobel prize of economics so one after another after another it was like forest gump. [laughter] he keeps pumping in to the people and the other thing that is interesting is he is on the ground floor of how we understand Human Behavior and there was a huge debate between marshall and the moral courage of his convictions. The other thing i will say is as a horrible bureaucrat. But if you throw words around like Manhole Covers and as a very emotional person with other people live felt that reflective of the greatest generation. So by mentioning this concept a barker field of of human being it is the biography of the net assessment so to introduce tell us about this net assessment my a emerge when did whatever is doing before that time for the military capability. That was a long question. [laughter] so what are the origins . He would go to the last days of the Truman Administration of the subcommittee. With bad Nuclear Attack was inflicted on the United States. And when that was continued by president eisenhower to keep on looking at the problem of the damage on a Nuclear Attack of a United States. Well into the 60s. Deciding to cancel it at that point. Into think if he needed any help. So within one year or two to raise the of possibility suggesting with that assessment capability fundamentally with the soviets in absolute terms with the military programs. A la cite the trend would continue through the reagan administration. Into the 80 a huge amount. Second the other Major Development was the soviets achieving parity with the United States. For those that had a Nuclear Capability so is the context that was increasingly important to make good strategic choices as Henry Kissinger rand iran in 1970 basically charlie gave the goahead for what became of the internet suggested that they needed to measure and track the military competition. Actually nixons Defense Panel said dishes establish that type of capability. He had nothing to do without working on intelligence issues with kissingers though not and though the Intelligence Community with that that assessment capability was established within a couple of years that would be transferred to the pentagon but then solicitor was very close back to the early 60s. They worried about where the United States relative to the soviet union. So to be a more useful strategic decision that was the beginning of the assessment then he moved to the pentagon and a turbulent period in the middle of the yom kippur war. If you remember 73 was a very busy period for the my house. And despite those efforts there is the abm treaty. And of course, with the president ial Election Year then something exciting happened with watergate which had all types of consequences. They are outspending as with that Nuclear Capability. So system analysis focused on is that a tank or plain better