2021 index of u. S. Military strength. This is the seventh edition of the index and the index has come one of the flagship publications. Our goal has been unchanged. It is to provide both the leaders of this country and the American Public a premiere open source and author tatetive of Armed Services and their ability to protect the nation. I think we have not only achieved that goal but continued with this effort. And this years edition is the best ever. In addition to our usual subjects, it includes National Security concerns and one of these is the emergent of the new space force. We have a new chapter on the subject of space this year and look more hearing from the editor of the new index in his presentation later. Today as part of our launch, we welcome a speaker with decades of matters, representative Mac Thornberry. He was the first elected to congress in 1994 and has supported a Strong National defense since. He is currently the Ranking Member of the house Armed Services committ
That live from moscow this is our international on calling the world news this hour a sad news to start with im afraid to say a passenger plane has crashed shortly after taking off from the airport and calyx down in central asia killing 12 people dozens are injured including children. Going to bring you. A pretty good did the mention of drug abuse. You could not run their lives even if you can to get out of only because if you want to. Start. It is a. Bit of a. Load on the plate is. The. Consumer look at the risk just as risk. As the shows it was aboard the. You with your. Good perception to. Look at those pictures and we realize what a tragedy it is for kazakstan only a few days before new years eve but if there is a case in which the words good news could be appropriate after a plane crash this is the one because right now we already understand that the doctors have confirmed that the majority of the people who were on board survived which means that this couldnt have been a nose div
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Mastro, an assistant professor of Security Studies at the edmund a. Wilson school at Georgetown University and american scholar at American Enterprise institute. Shes the author of the cost of conversation, obstacles to peace talks in wartime. And she is currently working on a book about chans challenges to u. S. Primacy. Next we hear from a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and adjunct senior fellow at the center for new American Security and president and ceo of solarium llc, a defense consulting firm. Hes previously served as president of the center for strategic and budgetary assessments in a department of Defenses Office of net assessment and on the personal staff of three secretaries of defense. Hes the author of several books, most recently publishing the declines of deterrents earlier this year. Our third panelist is dr. Michael green who is a Senior Vice President for asia and japan chair at the center for strategic and International Studies csis as well as director of Asian S
Mastro, an assistant professor of Security Studies at the edmund a. Wilson school at Georgetown University and american scholar at American Enterprise institute. Shes the author of the cost of conversation, obstacles to peace talks in wartime. And she is currently working on a book about chans challenges to u. S. Primacy. Next we hear from a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and adjunct senior fellow at the center for new American Security and president and ceo of solarium llc, a defense consulting firm. Hes previously served as president of the center for strategic and budgetary assessments in a department of Defenses Office of net assessment and on the personal staff of three secretaries of defense. Hes the author of several books, most recently publishing the declines of deterrents earlier this year. Our third panelist is dr. Michael green who is a Senior Vice President for asia and japan chair at the center for strategic and International Studies csis as well as director of Asian S