I want to welcome everybody to the events today. How much money for the defense is enough . This began with a call i got from someone i respect who said toyo me simply how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend. I have to confess im more i ame comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity and about the defensee budget. I called my colleague here at brookings and i put the question to him how much should the u. S. Spend on defense and he said funny you asked i just finished an answer to that question so here we are and you can read all 20,000 words on the website but he wont try to read them all today. I want to start with the question i cant answer how much did the u. S. Spend, so can we get the first slide. The short answer is we spend a lot on defense. Theres lots of ways to measure but letsd start with a few basics. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last fiscal year about 900 million on defense roughly one out
I want to welcome everybody to the events today. How much money for the defense is enough . This began with a call i got from someone i respect who said toyo me simply how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend. I have to confess im more i ame comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity and about the defensee budget. I called my colleague here at brookings and i put the question to him how much should the u. S. Spend on defense and he said funny you asked i just finished an answer to that question so here we are and you can read all 20,000 words on the website but he wont try to read them all today. I want to start with the question i cant answer how much did the u. S. Spend, so can we get the first slide. The short answer is we spend a lot on defense. Theres lots of ways to measure but letsd start with a few basics. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last fiscal year about 900 million on defense roughly one out
California. We will hear from the commandant of the marine corps, the ceo of Lockheed Martin. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. A collectors item. Thank you and welcome to panel six, assessing the rebuild. Will we have the strategy and resources to rebuild the military in fiscal year 2019 . On this panel, we will evaluate president trumps desire to rebuild the military and we will look at the problems facing it. I would like to introduce our distinguished panel. Honorable eric aleman at the end, former undersecretary of defense for policy from 2005 to 2009. The formeragon, ambassador to turkey. President and ceo of Lockheed Martin. She joins walking 30 years ago as an engineer in rows away to 2016. P in Fortune Magazine identified mr. Houston as number three out of the 50 most powerful women in business around the world. Kathleen hicks, director of International Security program for csis. She was appointed by the president. She is a former principal undersecretary of policy at the
A collectors item. Thank you and welcome to panel six, assessing the rebuild. Will we have the strategy and resources to rebuild the military in fiscal year 2019 . On this panel, we will evaluate president trumps desire to rebuild the military and we will look at the problems facing it. I would like to introduce our distinguished panel. Honorable eric aleman at the end, former undersecretary of defense for policy from 2005 to 2009. The formeragon, ambassador to turkey. President and ceo of Lockheed Martin. She joins walking 30 years ago as an engineer in rows away to 2016. P in Fortune Magazine identified mr. Houston as number three out of the 50 most powerful women in business around the world. Kathleen hicks, director of International Security program for csis. She was appointed by the president. She is a former principal undersecretary of policy at the pentagon. And we have general robert geller, the 37th, bottom of the marine corps commissioned in 1975. He went to uva and i just le
A collectors item. Thank you and welcome to panel six, assessing the rebuild. Will we have the strategy and resources to rebuild the military in fiscal year 2019 . Strategy and resources to rebuild the military in fiscal year 2019 . On this panel, we will evaluate president trumps desire to rebuild the military and we will look at the problems facing it. I would like to introduce our distinguished panel. Honorable eric aleman at the end, former undersecretary of defense for policy from 2005 to 2009. The formeragon, ambassador to turkey. President and ceo of Lockheed Martin. She joins walking 30 years ago as an engineer in rows away to 2016. P in Fortune Magazine identified mr. Houston as number three out of the 50 most powerful women in business around the world. Kathleen hicks, director of International Security program for csis. She was appointed by the president. She is a former principal undersecretary of policy at the pentagon. And we have general robert geller, the 37th, bottom o