And International Studies this is about one hour. [inaudible conversations] welcome back. Cliff, happy birthday. You are welcome. It is all for you. I really am delighted to welcome general joseph votel for our keynote address today. He currently serves as ceo and president of Business Executives for National Security and he joined their in january 2020 following 89 years of distinguished military service and served for three years as commander of u. S. Central command and prior to serving as commander of Central Command he commanded the u. S. Special Operations Command and the joint special Operations Command and in addition to his current role at the visit executive Financial Security hes also a distinguished senior fellow National Security at the middle east institute and unwelcome credit [inaudible] he will talk about a theme that has come up throughout the discussion this morning which we are all aware of but werent exactly sure what to think about and i think in 30 minutes we wil
General joseph votel for a keynote address today. He currently serves for National Security. He joined there in january 2020 following 39 years of distinguished military service. He served in u. S. Central command. He prior to serving as the commander of central command, he commanded the u. S. Special operations command. Hes also a distinguished senior fellow at the middle east institute. Im happen foi welcome paul salem here. He is going to talk about a theme that has come up throughout the discussion this morning which were all aware of but werent sure of what to think of. I think in about 30 minutes well know exactly what to think about it. About how we should think about great power, competition in the gulf. So im delighted to introduce general joseph votel. [ applause ] thanks very much. Its great to be here, john. Thanks for the invitation to be here. Thanks for your flexibility in scheduling. I kind of smiled when i came up here. This little light i gave a speech up in new york
Kenow today. He currently serves as ceo of Business Executives for National Security. He joined there in january 2020 following 39 years of distinguished military service and served for three years as the commander of the u. S. Central command and he prior to serving as the commander of Central Command he commanded the u. S. Special Operations Command and the special joint Operations Command in addition to his current role as the executives for National Security he is also a distinguished senior fellow in National Security at the middle Eastern Institute and we have the president of the middle east institute here. He has got to talk about the theme that has come up through other discussions this morning, which we are all aware of but werent exactly sure what to think about and i think a moment about 30 minutes we will know exactly what to think about it, about how we should think about Great Power Competition in the gulf so. Im delighted to introduce general joseph votel. He sent to th
Kenow today. He currently serves as ceo of Business Executives for National Security. He joined there in january 2020 following 39 years of distinguished military service and served for three years as the commander of the u. S. Central command and he prior to serving as the commander of Central Command he commanded the u. S. Special Operations Command and the special joint Operations Command in addition to his current role as the executives for National Security he is also a distinguished senior fellow in National Security at the middle Eastern Institute and we have the president of the middle east institute here. He has got to talk about the theme that has come up through other discussions this morning, which we are all aware of but werent exactly sure what to think about and i think a moment about 30 minutes we will know exactly what to think about it, about how we should think about Great Power Competition in the gulf so. Im delighted to introduce general joseph votel. He sent to th
Of a diplomat is a sell them to solve a problem. You occasionally get the opportunity to negotiate an arms agreement that solves a part of the program, but even all of the arms control agreements between the u. S. And the soviet union never ended the tensions between the two systems, the two peoples, the different senses of ambition. We manage to we manage situations so they do not get out of hand. It is hard to define complete and total success when you are looking mostly at keeping the status quo or a slightly improved status quo. And it is hard to give credit for things that happen because people say they whether not happen anyway. It seemsthe jcpoa to me to have been a pragmatic attempt by the Obama Administration to deal with one of the Serious Problems of the iranian threat a potential nuclear program. It did not deal with proxies, Ballistic Missiles, it did not touch on religious minorities, things that people may have wanted to see included in the deal because the Obama Adminis