Democracy. U. S. Army Charles Flynn talked about challenges during the Conversation Center for Strategic International studies. This is about an hour and ten minutes. Stop. We are really glad you e here. For those of us joining online and certainly in person, welcome to the second installment of the Strategic Landpower dialogue. On general bob brown let me start again by thinking csis for this partnership and we could not do it without the support of General Dynamics in making this series happen. Thanks for the great support to make this possible. Opening up the first Strategic Land power dialogue event a few weeks ago pointing out the long overdue need to have a form like this to discuss Strategic Land power. We could not have picked a better. Now chief of staff randy george really getting after the demands and changing character in the direction of the army is still going. There is no better way to follow up getting general Charlie Flynn for the army pacific really incredible war fig
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