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Andrew marshall, a pentagon legend who served from president s nixon to obama. He just retired this past january at the ripe age of 93 years old. For his pioneering work foreman undersecretary of defense douglas [inaudible] called him the hidden hand behind American Foreign policy. Whats significant is that president nixon first tapped marshall to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries, at the time namely the soviet union. The concept is called net assessment. His former aides Andrew Krepinevich and barry watts are here to discuss the achievement. S of their mentor ...

Have a lot of article two people in this room. Even though the title as i understand this is the imperial presidency. Understand that republicans have always sort of deferred to the administration, to the executive branch for Foreign Policy issues. I agree with some of the speakers that on the other Hand Congress has its appropriate roam. Well, administrations have negotiated the u. N. Security Council Sanctions and its my bleach that the administration does have the ability on your own accord to deal with those sanctions. The executive branching also has their own executive sanctions that the...

This land is my land, from california, to the New York Island sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. Congress continues on its twoweek recess, several members are traveling. Nancy pelosi is in cambodia with a bipartisan delegation of members. The delegation visited the halo trust facility in cambodia. The delegation will travel to vietnam, korea and japan. John boehner is in the middle east. He met with iraqs prime minister. The speaker will travel to israel later this week. A press release says he and a delegation as the deadline approaches tonight for an Iranian Nuclear a...

But there are lots of arguments. The one interesting surprise that we point out in the historical record is that the United States went to great lengths, greater lengths than we perhaps realized in the past, to keep its friends and allies nonnuclear van itd even its enemies. Countries ranging from west germany to japan to south korea and australia, italy and sweden, the list goes on and on. In fact, issued a willingness to work with its adversary, the soviet union, against its allies to accomplish it. The third important question is an age old one how much is enough . In other words, what are ...

The professor. Im fascinated by his review of the u. S. Arsenal and the questions that he posed and the puzzles that he talked about are spot on. The a very interesting conversations and necessary. I might yield a little bit of a bucket of cold water myself because i will speak with a little more certainty but i will say i think he raises fair points about how certain we can be about some of our tried and true assumptions related to nuclear waepaoeapons and deterrents. As you heard, i served for almost 39 years in uniform. Much associated with the Strategic Forces so the opinions you would hea...