Russian challenge in europe. This is a joint event between the Defense Initiative group and the Missile Defense project that i run. At big events like this, we ask folks to familiarize themselves with the surroundings in case you have to exit. There are stairs around here or take the exits to the back. To kick things off, i will hand things over to Andrew Hunter to introduce our first speaker. Andrew good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us. Im Andrew Hunter, director of the Defense Industrial initiatives group. This event is an collaboration is in collaboration between our two programs. For those of you who are wondering about what the definition of collaboration is, we are giving you a demonstration this morning. Its my pleasure to introduce senator tom cotton to give us some great remarks and a preview. I am looking forward to the speech. Senator cotton is the senator from arkansas. He serves on a number of important committees in the senate, including near and and dear t
Modernization. I want to begin by thanking sponsors of that study. Without sponsors we dont get to because do studies. This study was sponsored by a combination of support from general dynamics. Drs technologies and l3 as well. I want to thank them of their support. I will briefly walk through the chief of findings and recommendations of the report. Its about 80 pages. Its a pretty quick read. Theres a lot of pictures. I urge you to go read whole thing. I will hit the highlights. And then we will bring up our distinguished panel to give us the real scoop on Army Modernization, how we should think about and what we should do with it. I want to start by saying with this study weve always every time we talked about it, we had to start by saying this is not a critique of arm acquisition. This is a look at if you start with a premise that the army needs to modernize, how does it develop a strategy for doing that which it can clearly and forcefully communicate within the army, within the dep
Korea, as well as defense related spending bills. The senate is dealing with health care legislation. Watch live coverage of the house on c span and the senate on c span 2. And watch anytime on c span dot organize and listen on the free c span radio app. Next, arkansas senator tom cotton talks about russia and europes current military strategy. He spoke last week at this event hosted by the center for strategy and international staud i see. Its close to an hour. Im a senior fellow here on the National Security program and i run the Missile Defense prompt here at csi s. Todays event is entitled the russia challenge in europe, implications for the inf treaty and Army Modernization. This is a joint event between the Defense Industrial initiatives group and the Missile Defense prompt which i run. And before we get started at bigger events like this we just ask folks to kind of familiarize themselves with the surroundings just in case you have to exit or Something Like that. Take the stairs
Policy alliance and Advocacy Group that works to decriminalize drugs will discuss plans by the Trump Administration to crack down on the growing, selling and use of marijuana. And National Affairs contribue r or university of Pennsylvania Law School professor amy wax will talk about her piece looking at disadvantaged youth in the United States. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on saturday morning. Dr. Kurt newman on his book, healing children, a surgeons story from the frontiers of the pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are about conduct things like medicaid, and cutting the nih and doing all of these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries. And when you think about half of the, half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children so whos going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare. We ought to double down and really put more into our children. Watch the entire progra
Policy alliance and Advocacy Group that works to decriminalize drugs will discuss plans by the Trump Administration to crack down on the growing, selling and use of marijuana. And National Affairs contribue r or university of Pennsylvania Law School professor amy wax will talk about her piece looking at disadvantaged youth in the United States. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on saturday morning. Dr. Kurt newman on his book, healing children, a surgeons story from the frontiers of the pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are about conduct things like medicaid, and cutting the nih and doing all of these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries. And when you think about half of the, half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children so whos going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare. We ought to double down and really put more into our children. Watch the entire progra