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[crowd noise] we are going to get started here. Thank you all, for joining us. Director of the project on military and diplomatic history here. We formed this to understand how history can help us understand current issues. With historians and that includes our speaker today, and we also like to promote interaction between historians and policy experts. And we have one of our own csi s csis policyts experts here with us. October 10 we are going to have carter talk about his book. On october 18 we will have Lawrence Friedman on the future of his book to talk about his and we will also talk about the history of foreign interference in our elections. You can sign up on our mailing signup to our mailing list, on our website. One of the virtues of history is that it provides us with rich, contextual understanding. If you country if you study a country for years and years as historians do, you learn how institutions interact in a way ....
Good morning. Im christopher prebrle, the Vice President for defense and Foreign Policy studies here at the cato institute. Thank you for being here today and thank you also to our outstanding conference staff here at cato who do such a terrific job organizing our many events. Welcome also to those of you watching on cspan and online at cato. Org. Following the september 11th terrorist attacks in october 2001 the United States initiated combat operations against al qaeda targets inside of afghanistan and against the taliban government that had harbored the terrorists there. In the ensuing 16 years u. S. Goals have changed marginally, but they typically include defeating al qaeda and other terrorist groups with global reach, strengthening the Afghan Government, and ....
Vice president for defense and Foreign Policy studies here at the cato institute. Thank you for being here today and thank you also to our outstanding conference staff here at cato who do such a terrific job organizing our many events. Welcome also to those of you watching on cspan and online at cato. Org. Following the september 11th terrorist attacks in october 2001 the United States initiated combat operations against al qaeda targets inside of afghanistan and against the taliban government that had harbored the terrorists there. In the ensuing 16 years u. S. Goals have changed marginally, but they typically include defeating al qaeda and other terrorist groups with global reach, strengthening the Afghan Government, and Security Forces to prevent the taliban f ....
Popular vote by a margin of nearly 3 million people. Although u. S. Politics began 2017 with some grim numbers, occupying less than 25 of government offices, we also witnessed a historic numbers of women pouring into the street in the way come Donald Trumps inauguration. Since then, we have seen a massive upsurge in the number of women coming forward to run for Political Office. Its the start of this year, more than the 11,000 women have approached emilys list to discuss their interest in running for office compared to only 900 in the 2016 election cycle. That brings us to the Central Point of todays event. Where do we go from here. How do we make the most of this unique moment of political resistance and turn womens desire for office into electoral reality . We have to start by getting our facts straight. For too long t ....