Were going to get started here. Thank you all for joining us. I am mark moyar, the director of the project on military and diplomatic history here at csis. We formed this center last year to help inform both the policy world and also the public on how history can help us understand current Foreign Policy issues. And we would like to especially promote historians who also do work in the policy world, and that includes our speaker today. And we also would like to promote interaction between historians and policy experts, and we have one of our own csis policy experts today, alice friend, who ill introduce later in the event. Ill give you a couple other events coming up for those who may be interested. We have october 10th, were going to have carter malcasen talking about his book, illusions of victory, the anbar awakening and the rise of the islamic state. On october 18th, well have Lawrence Friedman on his book, the future of war, a history. And october 24th, we have Calder Walton talki
Thank you for braving the weather. Today we have a book event, the death of expertise and the author tom nichols here, a professor in the department of Security Affairs at u. S. Naval college where he worked with u. S. Air force to create a program for Nuclear Deterrent studies. However, we are not going to be talking about Nuclear Deterrence today. Previously he was chairman of the Strategy Policy Department at the naval work college and before coming to new port, he taught International Relations in soviet Russian Affairs at georgetown university. Distinguished career in wash too. Fellow of the csis and currently senior associate of the council of International Affairs in new york city. He was recently a fellow at the john. F kennedy and hes really experts of experts and im really looking forward to the presentation. Thank you. [applause] thank you all for coming on this cold rainy day and for being here. Thank you so much for having me. Im honored to be here with you. I will start m
Thank you for making time on the program for this conversation about the future of our profession i am Randy Shepard i ended up spending most of my adult life in the supreme court. I now sit doing senior service. And i have an appointment over at the mccain school of law. To my right is rebecca corliss. Spent more than decade on the colorado supreme court. She left their ten or 11 years ago. She does all sorts of research and programmatic work. On the improvement of courts into the improvement of Legal Education and the legal profession. And then professor anderson certainly a man of circuit if there ever was one after his Legal Education at the university of chicago became a clerk despite his recent career i will say theres nobody has done more intriguing work. I will begin with the words was setting the stage. Not necessarily know about in detail. They provide considerable foundation for evaluating the current state of law schools both now and in the future. You could actually descri
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] thank you so much for coming. Its my or honor to welcome you toe hair taj Heritage Foundation on this rainy day. Today we have the death of expertise and the author, tom nichols, heres. Heat a professor the department of National Security affairs the u. S. Naval war college and harvard extension school. Were not talking about Nuclear Deterrence today. He is a former secretary of the navy fell explore held the Naval War Colleges sherm chair of public diplomacy. Previously chairman of the Strategy Policy Department the Naval War College and before coming to newport he taught at dartmouth. He was person staff for Security Affairs in the senate. Fellow of csis and is senior associate of the Carnegie Council aeat thicks and International Affairs in new york city. Was fellow in the jfk school at harvard university. He was is expert on experts, and im really looking forward to the presentation. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Th
Happening right now a party on the parkway but as Mother Nature playing the role of party pooper . For tens of thousands of people who came out to see the fireworks g evening to you. And happy fourth of july. Im lucy noland. Iain has the night off. Its been rain off and on all evening. Whats on tap . Lets get right to meteorologist dave warren. Dave n radar is lit. More rain coming in. That rain will get heavier here overnight tonight. Flash flood tag problem. Flash flood watch in effect between 3 00 and 8 00 oclock tonight overnight tonight. Impacting your morning rush. Rain with a few spots of yellow indicating thats getting to be moderate or heavy rain this moved out of delaware county. Theres the blue route, theres 95 pushing in through the city here. Its slowly moving not going to clear out quickly. Its slowly pushing its way through. Well see a little bit of a break before this moves out and heavier rain moves in overnight tonight. But heaviest rain now is right through philadelp