Foundations executive Vice President dr. Kim holmes. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Welcome to all of you here in the auditorium and everyone online as well. Its a great pleasure for us to be back in the building of the Heritage Foundation. We have been away for some time teleworking. This is my first day back for a while, but i am very pleased to be back here today for this very important event of launching the Heritage Foundations 2021 index of u. S. Military strength. This is the seventh addition of the index and the index has become one of Heritage Foundations flagship publications. Our goal is unchanged from the very first issue. It is to provide both the leaders of this country and also premierican public a opensource and authoritative assessment of Americas Armed forces and their ability to protect the nation. Our goal is unchanged from the very first issue. Its to provide both the leaders of this country, and also the American Public a premier open
Offensive on will be completed within a week. Plus italy was the 1st country in europe to be hit by the pandemic suffering one of the highest death tolls. Now the country is struggling to cope with the 2nd wave. Hello, im terry martin. Good to have you with us. The United States says its sharply reducing its troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. By mid january, the deployment will be cut to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country. President made a Campaign Promise to end what he called for ever wars, but the move has triggered opposition, both from leading republicans and nato allies. The sun could be setting on the us presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule, but suffering over 2000 deaths over time. Troop numbers have linked. Now outgoing president , donald trump will further reduce the number of soldiers here and in iraq. In light of these tremendous sacrifices and with great humi
President michel contends the attack as an unacceptable attack. Its the sound of switzerland, the people there are wondering when they can yodel, again, after a performance cars, one of europes worst, coronavirus outbreaks. Unexposed are welcome to the program. Irans president has reacted defiantly to the killing of a leading nuclear scientist. I said rouhani blamed israel for the assassination of mooks and frack. Is that a man suspected of masterminding, a secret Nuclear Weapons program . Rouhani said his death showed that what he called the depth of the enemys despair and said, it would not slow down Irans Nuclear ambitions. Moxon, fact that day was kill in an ambush as he traveled along this road to the east of tehran. Several gunmen are reported to have opened fire on his car. Shortly afterwards, a nearby truck exploded. He initially survived his injuries, but later died in hospital. The car carrying him was shot at and about 15 seconds later, a nissan pickup truck loaded with expl
At 202 7488003. You can join the conversation by texting us at that same number, also going to twitter cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. The acting defense secretary outlined the president s decision yesterday. [video clip] by january 15, 2021, our forces, their size and afghanistan will be 2500. Iraq will alsoin be 2500 by that date. With ouronsistent established plans and strategic objectives. Supported by the American People. It does not equate to a change in u. S. Policy or objectives. Moreover, this decision by the president is based on continuous engagement with his National Security cabinet over the month past. Including ongoing discussions with me and my colleagues across the u. S. Government. I have also spoken with our military commanders and we all will execute this repositioning in the way that protects our fighting men and women, partners in the Intelligence Community, diplomatic corps, and our superb allies that are critical to iraqiding afghan and Civil Society. Secretarya
2012012 in the last phase of escalation between iran and israel. But i think the major reason right now is that they still have the support of the Trump Administration politically, but perhaps also operationally and they want to make it the israelis want to make it as hard as possible for president elect biden. To start negotiations with the iranians next year, and it ran has a valid to retaliate. What kind of form could that take . Or the iranians have retaliated in the past in 2012. I believe that the israeli attacks stopped when iranians and their allies, mainly Lebanese Hezbollah attacked civilian israeli targets, so that the Israeli Government decided that the price was too high for israeli civilians to pay for these s. S. Innovations. And i believe something similar might follow. The revolutionary guards might also want to attack American American or israeli targets. But in most cases, at least at western countries, they are too weak to target hardened. Well protected targets. Yo