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Andrew krepinevich and barry watts talk about their book at the pentagons office and the pentagons think tank from 1973 to 2015. The coauthors are former members of marshalls staff. This event was held at the nixon president ial library and museum in yorba linda california. [applause] tonights discussion is that Andrew Marshall who served from nixon to obama. He retired january at the ripe age of 93 years old. For his pioneering work called the hidden hand before and behind American Foreign policy. His two former aides, let me back up for a second. What is significant is nixon tapped marshall ...

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 ...

I think i should be the last question from me and it is time to get questions from the audience. Thank you very much gentlemen. [applause] the last warrior will be on sale outside and both men will be available to sign copies but we will open up for questions. I have a question. Can you comment on one of Andrew Marshalls first positions, our first tasks within the white house in evaluating cia Intelligence Reports for president nixon . President nixon and Henry Kissinger were very unhappy with the kind of foreign intelligence that was coming into the white house when they became when they star...

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Know anyone of these applicants would do a tremendous job on this body. The way this process works, even if you are not appointed right away its important to be in the cue because there are vacancies for a lot of reasons and its important that people remain engaged and i want to say thank you to all the people who have expressed an interest. I think that the caliber that you see is the kind of caliber that we need to really move the Agency Forward and sort of outside of the box thinking. Even if you dont get appointed right away, i would ask you to be patient because this process will eventual...