In your book the works you write the military saved your life. What you mean by that . I think the military plays an incredibly Important Role in my life with the most important times in my life but wearing uniform of this country and i was first introduced i was 13 years old. I was sent to military school i had on mandatory year. I got some issues and challenges when i was younger every year she said i will send you away and i blew her off. I built handcuffs on my risk for the first time at 11 years old. I was intentionally hurting people that love to me so finally one day she came up to me and said im sending you to military school. Honestly i thought she was kidding or exaggerating then finally i realized she wasnt sent me a mandatory year. I hated every minute of it when i first started. I remember those first days they are. I ran away five times the first four days. Also the longer i stayed i began to fully understand what it was they were trying to teach me and what my mom is try
Hello everybody welcome to the brookings event on election and here at the Brookings Institute to have several colleagues to join me for an indepth discussion on this topic we will do a twopart event today starting with what you see before you. With the integrative process and then as second panel on the problems tackling this implication with a campaign were in the midst of. And with those keynote remarks some one from someone on the front lines. And the infrastructure security with the department of homeland security. And with they are doing with those t issues and then to go into a discussion with mark harvey with the National Security council for the person in charge of coordinating all of the initiatives. And with Election Security and integrity. And at the Harvard Institute of politics will also trying to work with the outreach on those issues and to understand whats involved on the various issues and to be and in the midterms. And with the organization especially devoted with th
Next a virtual discussion on current u. S. Strategy in the indopacific region. We heard about u. S. Relations with china and india, the impact of covid19 in those countries, and u. S. Troop withdrawal from germany. Held during a virtual discussion by the center or strategic and international studies, this is half an hour. Good morning. Im cynthia nics. Im happy to have with me general james mcconville. Gen. Mcconville its great to be here with you. Dr. Hicks i know we have a time ount of your ms. Hicks, i know we have a limited amount of your time. Theyre not often thinking about the pacific. Is the pacific really a priority for the army . What does it mean if it is . Gen. Mcconville historically were focused on europe. With the National Defense strategy puts the indopacific a top priority, its certainly a priority for us. When we take a look throughout the pacific that was my first overseas trip as a chief in september, 2019. I just did my first trip with covid out into the region and
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And then second beginning at 315 with the problems of tackling disinformation and we are delighted to start off today with remarks of those run the frontline we have the director performance security and infrastructure security at the department of Homeland Security and then coming right from the frontlines to deal with these issues he will give us an overview of what that government is trying to do to tackle the issue head on. And then most recently was the National Security council and the director for resilience and then to be engaged in Election Security and integrity. At that the Harvard Institute of politics and with that Public Outreach and the various issues so we would be concerned since the 2016 election. Mark will be joined by a david founder for the center for election and research one dad is devoted to this precise issue and has spent many years at the Pew Research Foundation looking at public am pulling opinion. And last but not least and that many of you will know in the