Challenges that australia is facing with the wildfires that are impacting australia in such a dramatic and negative way. And they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. As well, we also are focused on the passenger list of the aircraft that was lost in iran two days ago. All of those souls are in our thoughts and in our prayers today. Im john allen. Im the president of the brookings institution. And were very honored to have you with us. Happy new year. Were very pleased this morning to welcome the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, who is our distinguished guest and our great ally in helping to study the future of the United States army, the defense department, and the challenges that we face in the security environment. Secretary mccarthy was confirmed last year by the u. S. Senate, and after having served in that capacity as an acting secretary for a number of months, he has now assumed the full responsibilities on all the matters relating to our great United States army, to inc
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Up next on booktv brad meltzer weaves together historical accounts of Benedict Arnold and artifacts associated with the revolutionary war general in his new fictional thriller. [applause] here is where we have fun tonight. We have kids in the front row and that means chaos. Lets hear it for cspan. I love cspan. There is no better crowd than the washington metro area. All the viewers of cspan are in this room, and watch on a regular basis so we welcome everyone to cspan but a couple other things we will do, first i will tell you about the difference between history and destiny. We know what history is, it is what happened but destiny is what must happen. This is true. I cant believe this is happening but my father was struck by lightning. His father, my grandfather, i am not joking, was struck by lightning. That means dont stand next to me in a rainstorm. Last week i was telling my son the story. My dad was struck by lightning, his dad was struck by lightning, hes like oh my gosh, we ar