Host a conversation on military readiness and the threat we face. Od, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing military strength is a major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Gather all Public Information we can come across. Thecial testimonies from pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs. General news reporting from the community and our personal contacts in the services and pentagon. We gather all that all year long, go through analysis and writing processes, prepare last years information and this years and then issue a report card on the military. This year on a scale of one to five we would give it a marginal. We feel the u. S. Military at large is marginally able to meet the demands of National Security requirements. Meaning they can handle one major conflict in one part of the world, but not much more than that. We think it needs to be more than that because the u. S. Has global interests and responsibilities. Host the u. S. Military
Then move. On that shows that this is a very generous support package. I want to say i think it is absolutely justified he does if youre absolutely. Retailers and consumers not on the what they are facing in these last couple of weeks of the year it will be an exceptionally quiet Holiday Season but the hope is that that will also be true for hospitals. And Political Correspondent so when young joins me now simon welcome and almost full lockdown has been an announced as expected what are the main takeaways. Well i think the main thing is that the run up to christmas this year in germany will look very different from previous years and its incredibly drastic measure closing down nonessential retail from the 16th of december the time when a lot of people do their Christmas Shopping and that will mean an enormous amount for many businesses as well as individuals but the government is responding with this huge packages the finance minister said theyre costing between 10 and 12000000000. 00
A club or was said top inspire their head coach lucy and sabra outer edge a devastating loss to stoke got on saturday. Chemical for at least welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has announced a raft of tough new lockdown measures she said they were necessary to bring down the spiralling numbers of new kovac 1000 cases lets break down for you what is set to change here in germany from wednesday on nonessential shops will have to close supermarkets pharmacies and banks will be allowed to remain open schools will be shut and principal until the 10th of january and employers are being encouraged to allow their staff to work from home as far as thats possible of course merkel also. Made an appeal for people to limit their social contacts during the holidays the number of people allowed to meet indoors will remain restricted to 5 not including children under 14 and anticipation of new years celebrations sales of fireworks are going to be bad and the tough new measures set t
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