He also talks about russia, the Iran Nuclear Deal, brexit. This is just under one hour. [applause] host welcome everybody to the heritage foundation. Im delighted to introduce sebastian gardner. This is on the topic of defeating terrorism in the age of trauma. Gorka is a National Security strategist and a nonresident scholar. He recently served in the white house as Deputy Assistant and strategist to president donald trump. Also as Vice President for National Security support and professor of strategy under regular warfare. He has also served as the nose group ofe guest instructor at the United States Army Special Operations command at fort bragg. At theassociate fellow special operations university. He received a doctrine at the university of budapest and is the author of the New York Times defeating jihad the winnable war. Please help me to introduce Sebastian Gorka. Sebastian i like to thank john as well, especially at former for making the whole series possible and most widely of a
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I want to thank the ambassadors and for their presence here today. Id like to turn to discussing the importance of cyber terrorism in our fight against our cyber warfare that is infighting against terrorism. Would you agree for small that our nation cyber activities are increasingly important as we carry out the fight against isis, al qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula . Okay. Do you have any thoughts related to policy funding or other legislative initiatives that we need to be embarking on to improve our Cyber Capabilities . Is a very big question and i dont think im prepared to answer that in its entirety so let me put a couple facets of the question is the second today. Were happy to come back and discuss it. It is a broad question but i want you to was nearly on the counterterrorism. I think one of the vulnerabilities that we face is that the shady figures who are willing to sell on the dark web exploit capable taking advantage of vulnerabilities and common use of Software Products ha
The discussion is three hours. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Thank you for your patience. Im nick burns, director of Aspen Strategy Group and welcome to this session on American Global leadership in the 21st century. First, i want to thank dla piper for giving us the space is horny. We very much appreciate that. I want to thank all of you for being here, members of our Strategy Group, in particular senator dan of alaskan who im honored to interest you in a minute. Let me tell you about our program this morning. We at the Aspen Strategy Group are 35 years old. We have this radical notion that even in washington there can be an organization that is resolutely nonpartisan. We have been resolutely nonpartisan for 35 years. Our founders are bill perry, joan i, a lot. We meet annually in aspen, colorado to discuss and debate big ideas about america foreignpolicy and our Global Leadership in each year we hear a book based on our proceedings for publication in this years book is availa