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Im suzanne maloney, im vicepresident and director of Foreign Policy here at Brookings Institution, on behalf of Foreign Policy and the Talbot Center for security and technology, im truly delight today welcome you to the special event today. Our first annual night forum on politics. This forum is named in honor of brookings Phillip H Knight and made possible through his gift to the Foreign Policy program. And the overarching goal of the phil knight gift is supporting essential research into interNational Security, grand strategy, military affairs, american alliances, and security partnerships a...

Host and this week on the communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association, matt polka. Mr. Polka, what is the American Cable Association . Guest thanks, peter. Nice to be here again. Nice to be here with you, lynn, as well. The American Cable Association is unique in the fact that we represent many smaller Cable Operators across the country, and everyone always asks me, are there still small Cable Operators left . In fact, there are nearly 900 of them in every corner you can imagine, rural areas, small towns. Many of them are providing Competitive Services...

Took place gradually as a result of various conflicts. The u. S. Expanded into the vacuum made possible by the collapse of soviet power in the middle east with the gulf war and then became even more deeply involved with the iraq war and afghanistan in central asia. I will get to that in a moment of the in europe, although the presidency of the George Herbert walker bush had promised gorbachev as a condition for german reunification within nato that the u. S. Would not expand nato eastward, the Clinton Administration reneged on this promise and did so. Finally in asia the United States simply k...

Prince of bell air . For that he would get five day of detention. And what i found in a letter and interview that when the war was raging on and he was told russian airplanes were not great construction. You know it this isnt a great construction. It is efficient. So those planes were not great construction and not really good to protect the pilot. They were efficient in fighting the nazis. So his head was always sticking out from this cock pit so he invented a helmet and it was the soldiers hard hat and then the pilot had above it. So it protected them. My mother didnt keep the letters, but i...

You are watching booktv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. Up next, bruce riedel. That all happens next on cspan2s of tv. Bruce riedel who retired with 30 years in the cia talks about the cias involvement in afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, the last battle in the cold war between the u the u. S. And the t union. This is about one hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Im Strobe Talbott and its my pleasure to welcome you to a conversation that i hope will engage as many of you as possible. Bruce riedel and i go back a ways. We got ...