Welcome to the hudson institute. Ein senior fellow at the institute of we are here to talk with Christian Brose whose new book, the kill chain, is in the future of hightech warfare that Christian Brose just released. Chris is a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services committee an and prior to that e Senior Policy Adviser for senator john mccain and previously held other positions in the government. Right now he is the chief surgeon to build capabilities for the military as well as for the department of homeland security. We can talk about that as we go through the interview. But thank you for being with us today. So, just to start off, what led you to do this but i know youve been thinking about these issues for a while and obviously something that you have encountered during your time onn the surface kennedy and senator mccain is the policy adviser. But what was the genesis of sitting down and writing the entire book . Guest its a great question i ask myself constant const
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He is the chief officer building capabilities for the military and department of homeland security. We can talk about that as we go through the interview. Thank you for being with us today. Just to start, what led you to do this book . I know you have been thinking about these issues for a while and it is something you have encountered a lot on the Armed Services committee and senator mccains policy advisor, but what was the genesis that led to you sitting down and writing the entire book . Great question. I ask myself that constantly. Why did we get into this every day i was working on it . Basically two things. Both of these were a product of many years i looked at these issues, just thinking about this on a daytoday basis but the first was the growing realization that we had a fundamental problem i felt was underappreciated that people didnt appreciate that we were losing competitive advantage, we werent where we needed to be from a technological standpoint or operational standpoint
Just released. Hes a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services committee and prior to that he was advisor for john mccain and previously held other positions in the government. Right now he is the chief Strategy Officer that builds capabilities for the military as well as the department of Homeland Security and we can talk about that as we go through the interview thank you very much for being with us today. Its great to be here. So just to start off with what led you to do this book . Youve been thinking about these issues for a while and obviously this is something youve encountered a lot during your several years on the Armed Services committee and with senator mccain as a policy advisor what was the genesis that led to you sitting down and writing an entire book . Its a great question and i asked myself that constantly, why did i get into this every day i was working on it . I guess it was basically two things. One was and both of these were a product of the many years i
Welcome to the Hudson Institute im senior fellow and we are here to talk today about today in america and hightech warfare chris is a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services committee the senior policy advisor for senator john mccain and previously held other positions in government right now the chief Strategy Officer for those for the military and department of Homeland Security we can talk about that as a go through the interview but they give for being with us today. Its great to be here. What led you to do this book obviously this is something you have encountered over the years as a policy advisor but what is the genesis to lead you to sit down and write the entire book . Its a great question i ask myself constantly why did i get into this . Basically its two things. Both of these are a product and thinking about the stuff on a daytoday basis with the growing realization that we decided a fundamental problem to be underappreciated that we were losing competitive advan