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Good afternoon everybody. My name is thomas mahnken, Senior Research professor and ceo of the center for repeated and its my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book. The big stick, the big stick the limits of soft power and the neccessity of military force. What were going to do is let the authors always should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the last word. What im going todo his first turn to my colleague , ambassador eric edelman, a practitioner here at skype and counselor to the center for strategic and budgetary assessment for comments. Ill turn to...

Good afternoon everybody. My name is thomas mahnken, Senior Research professor and ceo of the center for repeated and its my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book. The big stick, the big stick the limits of soft power and the neccessity of military force. What were going to do is let the authors always should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the last word. What im going todo his first turn to my colleague , ambassador eric edelman, a practitioner here at skype and counselor to the center for strategic and budgetary assessment for comments. Ill turn to...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everybody. Im a Senior Research professor for the budgetary assessment and it is my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book softcover and the necessity of military force. What we are going to do because the author should always have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give up the last word so what im going to do is first turned to my colleague for his comment and i will turn to my other colleague at the Global Affairs for his comment. Then we will turn to the author and opened th open the floor tor your question and go from there...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everybody. Im a Senior Research professor for the budgetary assessment and it is my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book softcover and the necessity of military force. What we are going to do because the author should always have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give up the last word so what im going to do is first turned to my colleague for his comment and i will turn to my other colleague at the Global Affairs for his comment. Then we will turn to the author and opened th open the floor tor your question and go from there...

It is my pleasure to welcome you for discussion of this book. The big stick the limits of soft power and the necessity of military force. What we are going to do is the author should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the first turn to my colleague, and residents and counselor for budget chair assessments. Sounding conspiratorial here. Henry kissinger, director of Global Affairs for his comments. Then we will turn to the other, eliot cohen and open the floor to you for your questions and go from there. With no further ado, eliot cohen. Great to be here. Important that every...