Current news from northeast syria. We have great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Ken pollack, dana stroul and were also pleased to welcome back in the eye senior fellow and director of the defense and Security Program bilal saab after a oneyear fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of the six experts is eric schmitt. Eric is a writer covering terrorism and National Security for the new york times. Since 2007 he has reported on terrorism issues with assignments to pakistan, afghanistan, north africa, southeast asia, among others. He is a coauthor of counterstrike, the untold story of americas secret campaign against alqaeda. Published in 2011. Before joining the times, eric was an education reporter at the tricity herald i
The National Security program here at csis. Thank you so much for joining us today for the second portion of our rollout event for the oversight and accountability and security secretary assistant seeking return on investment report. Following the terrific remarks from representative smith this morning, we have gathered an Interagency Panel from several important notes of the vast Security Sector Assistance Community to enlighten us on some of the great work that they are doing behind the scenes on this on this enterprise. I did want to spend a few minutes at the outset noting the coauthors and great work and contributions of csis staff that worked on this project over the last nine months. My coauthors hijab shaw, Rebecca Hughes and Shannon Green contributed mightily to the successful outcome of this project. And none of this would have been possible without the tremendous engagement and support of Key Stakeholders throughout the ssa community, several of which are in the audience tod
Good afternoon, everyone. Im melissa dalton, a senior fellow in the Deputy Director of the National Security program here at csis. Thank you so much for joining us today for the second portion of our rollout event for the oversight and accountability and security secretary assistant seeking return on investment report. Following the terrific remarks from representative smith this morning, we have gathered an Interagency Panel from several important notes of the vast Security Sector Assistance Community to enlighten us on some of the great work that they are doing behind the scenes on this on this enterprise. I did want to spend a few minutes at the outset noting the coauthors and great work and contributions of csis staff that worked on this project over the last nine months. My coauthors hijab shaw, Rebecca Hughes and Shannon Green contributed mightily to the successful outcome of this project. And none of this would have been possible without the tremendous engagement and support of
It alone and we have to talk with each other and figure out how the create quality jobs in the clean energy e kconomy. We have had as our part perrer inship that we are work manage the midwest and on the west coast from the u. S. Conference of mayors you can see more at cspan. Org, and we will leave this for a series of conversations this afternoon about defense and National Security oversight. The House Armed Services Ranking Member adam smith leads off and also the private sector for oversight and accountability. Live coverage here on cspan3. Hassan, we feel secure in the building but as a convener, we have a duty to prepare for the emergencies, so take a look around you and behind me are exits. I will be the official Safety Officer today. So should a fire alarm or something go off, i will direct you in the correct orientation out of the building. Today culminations a ninemonthlong effort conducteded by the cis program. Over 60 groups and functional experts and leaders of the ngo and
Welcome to defensnews. Im vago muraan. The defensecuss how Security Cooperation agency plans to grow u. S. Defense talk to a top turkish acquisitionon official the programs. Army general wes clark when it comes to strategy american tends to wait for a before properly planning. In his new book dont wait for it is t war he argues time t build an integrated strategy focusing on economic independence. Rgy he is a vietnam veteran and west point graduate who served as natos supreme allied commander in 2004. He ran for democrac national nomination. General clark. Great to see you again. Thank you. Bookfore we talk about the i want to ask about the administrations strategy toward isis. Minimize u. S. Ground forces some say more needed on the ground. General dempsey added his voi to that debate. The administrations strategy the right one . And should american ground deployed on the ground in this fight . Backwards here. Ground troops maybe special forces advisors as a last resort but otherwise