And if you do not, i believe we still have copies at the front desk. By all means, pick up a copy on your way out. We are very fortunate to have with us today, brian graff, this man, my friend and coauthor was also a retired naval officer, formal Deputy Director for american seapower. A prolific writer and also managing director, its a National Security and defense consultancy. Its also a pleasure to welcome david, this man. Also a retired naval officer and defensive uses best writer. I will offer some thoughts based on our monograph. Brian will follow. Then the three of us will discuss, we will conclude with questions and some answers. To the untrained eye, modern military Technology May seem to have eliminated the thought of war that defined premodern battlefields. Victory in historic conflicts relied on the coincidence of skill and luck. The great commander sought in a position to impose his will on a chaotic battlefield in a single moment of genius or a series of moments of genius.
Afraid to take your issue seriously. You are never too young to have an opinion so that your voice be heard now. For more information go to our website, studentcam. Org. Welcome to todays conference on Intelligence Surveillance reconnaissance and targeting. This part of the series conducted by Hudson Institution for american seapower. Im seth cropsey, senior fellow here at hudson, and also director of the center for american seapower. I hope that you have monograph the subject of our discussion today, and if you do not, i believe that we still have copies out at the front desk, so by all means pick up a copy on your way out. We are very fortunate to have with us today bryan mcgrath, this man, my friend and coauthor of the monograph was also a retired naval officer, formerly Deputy Director of hudson sector for american seapower, a prolific writer and also managing director of the Ferrybridge Group which is National Security and defense consultancy. Its also a pleasure to welcome david
Good morning and welcome to daybreak australia. Im paul allen and we are down to asias nature market oh. Asian stocks pushed for a week open with trade risks overshadowing the deal to avert the u. S. Shut down. Data showed factory activity picking up for the First Time Since march. A private survey indicates slowing expansion. Home prices showing strength in september driven by soaring demand read the rba expected to hold rates again on tuesday. And some breaking news out of the gates in australia. Bank pmis for september a a slight pickup, 48. 7 is the reading from the 48. 2 we saw in august we are still in negative territory but a strange trading day including australia. There is a pu holiday in australia. Dsx will trade as normal however we might see less volume tha usual. Elsewhere weve got the dollar below . 65. We are anticipating a weaker opg when we get going in australia. Futures are down by half of 1 at the moment read youve got new zealand trading, coming down to election da
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Washingtons dulles airport. Well see the airplanes that have carried americans aloft from the earliest days of the 20th century. Hi. May name is tom crouch. I am the senior curator of aeronautics at the national air around space museum. And we are here this morning at the national air and space museum Housing Center. This is the place where our museum keeps all of its largest objects and some pretty darn spectacular things when you come right down to it. We are standing almost in front of one of my favorite machines. Its the 1903 langley airplane. Aerodrone, as he called it. Samuel langley was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. From the mid 1880s until the time of his death in 1906. He was sort of a selftaught astronomer. He was the founder of the Smithsonian Astro physical observatory and he founded the zoo and some of the museums we have today. But he was really fascinated, and had been since childhood, by the idea of flight. And in the late 1880s, he decided to begi