That you can joined us for a rollout on a report of afghanistan and moving forward. As we were thinking about the president ial transition we thought it was prudent to put together papers for the next president really recommending our way forward that would protect american interests in any number of topics and seemed to us that afghanistan a war that continues 16 years on that it was a critical area where a new administration was going to have to grapple with u. S. Strategy objectives, and the way forward for the campaign. And so, we commissioned chris colenda, here to lead the development of the report. Chris is now president and ceo of the colenda leadership group. Hes also a former military officer four times in afghanistan, once commanding an airborne Infantry Task force in kunar, and has been written up in many case studies and books as a sort of model how counter insurgeoncy can be effective. I was fortunate to have him as my Senior Advisor on policy for afghanistan and pakistan
Welcome, everybody. Good afternoon. Im michelle. Im the cofound sxwrer ceo for the center for new american security, c dmch23467 cnas. Were delighted you could join us today. As we were thinking of the president ial transition we thought it was important to put together some papers for the next president before we knew who that president would be. Really recommending a way forward that would protect and advance american interests on any number of topics. And it seemed to us that afghanistan as a war that continues 16 years on that this was a key area where administration would have to grapple with u. S. Strategy, objectives and the way forward for the campaign. And so we commissioned Chris Columba whos a cnas senior adjunct fellow here, to lead the development of the report. Chris is now president and ceo of the strategic leadership group. Hes also a former military officer, four times in afghanistan, once commanding an airborne Infantry Task force in Kunar Nuristan which pioneered a n
Welcome, everybody. Good afternoon. Im michelle. Im the cofound sxwrer ceo for the center for new american security, c dmch23467 cnas. Were delighted you could join us today. As we were thinking of the president ial transition we thought it was important to put together some papers for the next president before we knew who that president would be. Really recommending a way forward that would protect and advance american interests on any number of topics. And it seemed to us that afghanistan as a war that continues 16 years on that this was a key area where administration would have to grapple with u. S. Strategy, objectives and the way forward for the campaign. And so we commissioned Chris Columba whos a cnas senior adjunct fellow here, to lead the development of the report. Chris is now president and ceo of the strategic leadership group. Hes also a former military officer, four times in afghanistan, once commanding an airborne Infantry Task force in Kunar Nuristan which pioneered a n
Have five or six and here theres three major ones. Ill be a little tired tomorrow. Lets get to the first word. Heres taylor rigs. Taylor starting in europe, germany has looked at President Trumps allegation it owes large amounts to nato and the u. S. Put german accountant said theres no cannot. Theyve complained in the past most nato nations including germany dont meet the goal of sending 2 on convince of their budget. The challenger to merkel is ruling out a Donald Trump Style campaign. Martin shultze won the parties in september elections and pledge to avoid personal attacks. Social democrats are in the statistical tie with merkels Christian Democratic Led block. In the u. S. The Senate Begins hearings today on President Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court, neal gorsuch and theyre trying to get enough votes for the 60vote threshold for the streak picks and if not they will eliminate the threshold. Nd use a simple vote netanyahu threatened to dissolve his government and call early el
Scandal was bigger than previously believed. This was reported at the workings institution in 2014. It is about 90 minutes. Good morning. Welcome to the brookings institution. This is an event sponsored by the brookings intelligence project. Our guest today is mr. Malcolm byrne. Im extremely pleased to have him here today. Not only is he a great scholar put a great friend. His official title is Deputy Director of the National Security archive. Nsa. Of course it is not that an that nsa he works for. The nsa york store is one of washingtons greatest gems. It is a place where classified America Needs this maker and is hopefully declassified. It seeks to shine a light on what goes on behind the scenes inside of washington. He is the coauthor of the becoming enemies. He now has a new book, irancontra, which is based on an extraordinary amounts of research and documents and diaries and interviews with individuals with a truly a mountain of material and documents the tunnel think anyone else