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Once upon a time, the United States of America – the world’s self-styled beacon of democracy – nearly nuked China’s then 600 millions worth of innocents. This, before Beijing even had any A-Bombs of its own. Well, that much we’ve known, in broad strokes – though, I fear, without the requisite resultant soul-searching – since historian Gordon Chang’s 1988 journal article (which I was assigned in graduate school en-route to West Point’s faculty): JFK, China, and the Bomb.
Chang’s peer-reviewed scholarly submission made waves – at least in academia – by disclosing the rather profound fact that the Kennedy administration apparently
lessons learned from shakespeare to teach leadership to top executives. being a renaissance man he also took part in the zaire river expedition in 1974 traveling down the congo river on the 100th anniversary of henry morton stanley s legendary expedition. he even translated for muhammad ali at the rumble in the jungle fight with george foreman. one of the many highlights of his distinguished career was accompanying ronald reagan to the superpower summits with general secretary mikhail gorbachev. all of this provides a unique perspective for our symposium today. ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to ambassador ken adelman. [ applause ] thank you, duke. that was a wonderful introduction. it was so much nicer than the introduction i had in indianapolis when i was in office and the fellow there from the rotary club said that i had been in the with ronald reagan for all these important things. i was in and out of the white house constantly. i knew everything that
that was a wonderful introduction. it was so much nicer than the introduction i had in indianapolis when i was in office and the fellow there from the rotary club said that i had been in the with ronald reagan for all these important things. i was in and out of the white house constantly. i knew everything that was happening. so he ended the introduction of me with a grand flourish. he said, so listen up carefully and hear the latest dope from washington. here s ken adelman [ laughter ] then about a year ago, a year and a half ago now, i was giving a talk on security interests in northeasia and the head of the foreign affairs committee in tokyo after after my speech he got up and he after my speech he got up and he said, ambassador adelman, for your service to the free world and for your remarks today you [ laughter ] i told him that was all right. of all the things in the world i wanted, much clap was not one of them. [ laughter ] but i really appreciated the sentim
global forces. it sends the location to analysts at a ground station which passes the information to command centers. the command center beams the court next to a command and control plane which directs warplanes to their targets. the new did not even mention the new york times did not even mention the satellite communications that brings this together. this infrastructure, is this to be sold alongside the uav s? i doubt it. even if a sovereign nation once the right to sell its uav s, it will demand an infrastructure. it will depend on the u.s. or a large multinational organization. there is nothing really radical about providing uav services as an alternative to providing the hardware itself. let me close by reading a statement eight years ago by the president and ceo of general atomics, which developed in the predator. the last thing a forward commander needs is to maintain and operate airplanes. what he needs is intelligence support. somebody looking and then piping