Guidance prior to now the unveiling of its budget request. We are thrilled to have decent beginning our discussion today. He has one of the longer titles but one of the more important titles, Principal Deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, a job that jim miller also had and we will talk about in the table that follows, but for now i want to introduce david who has been one of the most important authors and voices on the conceptualization and training in the writing of the document that we now have available in all of you can access as you are aware on the internet. It is about a 70 page document much longer than the unclassified version and has a lot of elaboration you are going tyouregoing to hear about that. David will give some short remarks and then we will swap out a little before the 11 00 mark for the Panel Discussion than i will moderate and introduce the panel when we get to that point. Let me say a couple more things about david. This is his second or third or fourth t
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Commander, general john titan. He looked at the nuclear interviews with past and present included the emergence of new and complex threats are on the rise. Potential threats include those from russia, china, iran and north korea. This is little more than one hour. Thank you very much. Seated. If it is my pleasure to introduce vice adam all of the u. S. Navy in his a submariner can [inaudible] use since his current post of the 16th president of National Defense university this past december he will provide welcoming remarks. Thank you, john. General heitman, mr. Trachtenberg, distinguished guest, ladies investment, good morning. Welcome to the National Defense university. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this policy seminar in the 2018 Nuclear Posture review. As president im pleased and proud that we are able to help facilitate discussion and debate on the npr. As a career summering officer and former commander of several strategic courses is particularly satisfying for me to b