We are taking phone calls to hear your thoughts. Attnam veterans, call in 202 7488000. Members of the unum nonveterans ilies, 202 7488001 members of Vietnam Veterans families, 202 7488001. All others, 202 7488002. Us onreciate you joining this memorial day as we focus on the vietnam war, and those who served. Our question for our viewers, what is the legacy of the vietnam war . We will put the numbers on the screen. One of the reasons we are focusing on the unum, on , just days after president obama visiting the unum vietnam. Conflicts throughout human history, we learn once more a bitter truth. That war, the matter what our intentions may be, bring brings suffering. You remember some 3 million vietnamese soldiers on both sides who lost their lives. Our Memorial Wall in washington, you can touch the americans who5 give her lives in the conflict. Gave their lives in the conflict. In both our countries, our veterans and families of the fallen still ache for the friends and loved ones tha
Is is what is the aspiration we have for the vexes problems, and the thought process and the first thing well do is ill use my conventional forces, and if that fails, use strategic forces. I tell you, its going to turn around. Dont think about it in a nuclear sense, but think strategic first, coming from great distance or no distance, to solve a problem. Last, think about the conventional forces and moving and huge costs of standing armies and moving them to the problem. Its just the reality we have to deal with, and how were going to do that, how are we going to afford it, those are the the questions, i think, that were going to, as an alliance, come to grips with and understand how to do that; ours, were not matching resources and capabilities with the security that we desire to have. Thank you. Other than that im in a good place. That leaves a good place. The leading expert brings a dose of reality, make it a concern, particularly such with europe. When you hear those speakers, part
Rebound, more of the spending needs to go to investment. That mean that there needs to be the extent question find a way to more increases deference cooperation. Let me wednesday perhaps anybody that knows me know that believed are spending on Nuclear Weapons. Probably isnt the smartest spending we can think about when it comes to the future of this alliance. These are weapons that are not likely to have any role in anything we do in 99. 999 of the time or perhaps even 100 of the time. Im happy to take your questions. [applause] thank you very much. That was just fantastic. If it remains focus on collective dissent for irrelevant for the future. You laid out the stark numbers about defense capabilities on defense and laid out the importance theres a lot to get in to here. I want to pick up a couple. I know, theres a lot of interested in the audience. Let me start where you ended on the nuclear point. Our next conversation on cartwright and others, former undersecretary, will in to Nucl
The cube to be new government will work out on the issue. Increasingly on the strategic and political side. Within europe and indeed, within nato. I think that the United States needs that strong leadership from germany a willingness to stand up and be part of not only a collective but indeed a leader of that collective. Within nato and within the European Union and broadly. Speaking in order to ensure that the United States will have this partner. Not only in we are lib berlin but indeed europe we need. Germany is the big kid on the block. It is militarily the big kid on the block. It doesnt have the expenditure on Nuclear Weapons that others have. It is transforming its military in to a force that is quite able to conduct the military operations. Its efforts in afghanistan are underappreciated. They are they have been a leader in the north. A true leader. They are the first and only countries so far to have stepped up and said they will be there not only other countries but the first
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