Good afternoon everybody. My name is thomas mahnken, Senior Research professor and ceo of the center for repeated and its my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book. The big stick, the big stick the limits of soft power and the neccessity of military force. What were going to do is let the authors always should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the last word. What im going todo his first turn to my colleague , ambassador eric edelman, a practitioner here at skype and counselor to the center for strategic and budgetary assessment for comments. Ill turn to my other friend and colleague, how branch, Henry A Kissinger distinguished professor of Global Affairs for his comments. And we will turn to the office, to elliott and then opened the floor to you for your questions, and go from there. So with no further do, eric. Thank you, great to be here. I think its important that every book event remember the important part of a book event is to sell books
Good afternoon everybody. My name is thomas mahnken, Senior Research professor and ceo of the center for repeated and its my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book. The big stick, the big stick the limits of soft power and the neccessity of military force. What were going to do is let the authors always should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the last word. What im going todo his first turn to my colleague , ambassador eric edelman, a practitioner here at skype and counselor to the center for strategic and budgetary assessment for comments. Ill turn to my other friend and colleague, how branch, Henry A Kissinger distinguished professor of Global Affairs for his comments. And we will turn to the office, to elliott and then opened the floor to you for your questions, and go from there. So with no further do, eric. Thank you, great to be here. I think its important that every book event remember the important part of a book event is to sell books
Posted, and its again, the u. S. Military is concerned but theyre not all spun up about this. This has happened repeatedly over the years. At one point a number of iraqis in texas were, you know, walked away from their training facilities. Just last week, two Afghan Soldiers walked away from the Training Base in quantity koe, virginia and later picked up apparently shopping in georgetown in washington, d. C. So unless there is some indication they are, in fact, somehow affiliated with some terrorist militant organization, at this point, are not deemed a threat. But never the less, officials want to track them down. Sure. Thank you so much, my friend. Well keep a close watch. On to the to focus. The president S International pitch to fight isis. The president will lead a u. N. Security Council Meeting on between rally more support to fight the brutal terrorist group. Secretary of state john kerry said the president will attempt to build on current commitments from the global community.
Comedian tracy morgan is still recovering from the near fatal highway accident. It left him with broken bones and a brain injury. The accident blamed on a truck driver who had not gotten enough sleep. Were up all nightline with abcs Ron Claiborne. Reporter the accident caused a moment of recognition in our sleep deprived nation where experts say we now get two hours less sleep every night than we used to. Its a tragedy that ben howard and his daughter know all too well. Right here on the side of the road, my family died. I lost my wife, my son and my daughter because someone was behind the wheel who had not had enough sleep. Reporter this accident is 1 of 100,000 reported automobile crashes attributed to sleep deprivation that occur every year. According to natgeos sleepless in america which was published with the National Institutes of health, 40 of American Adults of sleep deprived. And the consequences that result from too little sleep can be catastrophic as the natgeo doc points ou
Allegations, who released, who ordered the dossier in the first place were behind it. Heres exactly what he said. He said it at a News Conference with the moldovian president. He said the people that spread these accusations are worse than prostitutes and that this was being done to undermine trumps legitimacy. He said it was unique event never done before in political history and prove of the degraded political system in the United States. He compared this to the coupe in ukraine in 2014. There are many people in moscow looking at whats happening in the United States at the moment, the dossier and so on, and they do see some kind of deep state. One or two officials have used that phrase. They see that the Intelligence Community, maybe the Foreign Policy establishment, the defense establishment are somehow against donald trump and want to undermine his legitimacy. So thats what he was getting at, hallie. So, bill, headlinewise here, is this a case of putin coming to trumps defense, the