Tonights discussion is about Andrew Marshall cruz served through nixon through obama he just retired the age of 94 former undersecretary of defense was called the hidden a and behind the policy. But what is significant is nixon tapped him to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries with the soviet union. But his former aides and was a was planning graduate them with strategic of budgetary assessments has a great body of scholarly work them prior with the evaluation at the pentagon he worked for Northrop Grumman it is a graduate of u. S. Air force academy said holders of masters and university of pittsburgh. The Fletcher Jones associate professor and he holds an mba and a ph. D. From princeton university. Ladies and gentlemen, Andrew Krepinevich and barry watts. [applause] thanks to the Nixon Library for having me here. But there is the small group of washington d. C. Foreign policy types along the fringes of this group with a Foreign Affairs to recall the inte
Tonights discussion is about Andrew Marshall cruz served through nixon through obama he just retired the age of 94 former undersecretary of defense was called the hidden a and behind the policy. But what is significant is nixon tapped him to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries with the soviet union. But his former aides and was a was planning graduate them with strategic of budgetary assessments has a great body of scholarly work them prior with the evaluation at the pentagon he worked for Northrop Grumman it is a graduate of u. S. Air force academy said holders of masters and university of pittsburgh. The Fletcher Jones associate professor and he holds an mba and a ph. D. From princeton university. Ladies and gentlemen, Andrew Krepinevich and barry watts. [applause] thanks to the Nixon Library for having me here. But there is the small group of washington d. C. Foreign policy types along the fringes of this group with a Foreign Affairs to recall the inte
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Do you think that those means can be yoked to what would be the more natural in the system, the Democratic Party or do you think thats not sufficient the existing structure is insufficient to address what you see as sort of the deep structural racist inequalities . I think the twoparty system isnt working for us, and it hasnt worked for us for generations. Lets be very, very honest about th that. I think what were seeing is a crisis of our democracy and the reality is that these types of actions that were seeing, the disruptions, the really courageous acts of nonviolent civil disobedience just taking this country by storm really is an effort to call attention to the very real crisis thats happening in our communities. Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that theyre having from Law Enforcement to our Education System and so on. And so these actions are actually in order to make very visible whats taking