Good morning and welcome to this Commonwealth Club online program. I am Gloria Duffey president and ceo of the Commonwealth Fund and was honored to serve as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense in the 1990s. Peer are many issues today surrounding National Defense in our military and to the military be used to quell domestic unrest such as the recent protests and should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and contemplating resuming nuclear testing. Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and their statues be removed from our public places. To address these questions and many more today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretary of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. The bipartisan secretary of defense secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book exercise of power american failures, successes and a new path forw
Should the military be used for domestic unrest such as the recent protests . Should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and even contemplating resuming Nuclear Testing . Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and other statue be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. As a bipartisan secretary of defense, secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book, exercise of power americas failures, successes and a new path forward in the post cold war world. Doctor gates is an officer in the u. S. Air force and spent 27 years in the cia. He served as the cia director and became the first career officer in cia history to move from entrylevel employee to head the agency. Secretary gates served as a membe
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Contributors of this report will talk on u. S. Approach to Counter China based on this report. So now introductions. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude towards the world, challenged by chinas ambition. Vice president mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, and this is very important, and said beijing government approach using Political Economic and military tools as propaganda to advance its interest and benefit its interest in the United States. So given that the United States need to win the competition, cooperation will arise in likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a deciding factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, the wild, wild west the winning side comprise but the losing side was composed of just four. During the u. S. Soviet cold war, 54 versus 26 eric so these facts indicate that the number of supporters correlate to the likelihood of winning the competition. Therefore, maintaining improving coll
Just turned 7 pm saturday the 4th of january live from the Art International world new center seasons greetings for me care for now and with this hours update thanks you company so the 1st thousands of mourners have been holding funeral processions in the iraqi capital baghdad to one of those killed in a u. S. Airstrike on friday morning including irans top general has seen solid monied the crowds have been waving their National Flag the flags of various to around back shia militia groups and chanting death to america the remains of the commanders body will be repatriated now to iran for burial on sunday considered the 2nd most powerful figure in the Islamic Republic he was among 10 killed in the Early Morning raid following a direct order of things from the u. S. President donald trump whose defended the assassination saying it was necessary he said to prevent an imminent attack on american personnel. Oh and another possible war in the middle east but its cause profound anger both in