Will come to the hearing to have differences with. I think that will make up the American Public on the reliance of supply chain of Critical Materials do you consider that our response to the decision to allow huawai with a 5g network that theri government decision crosses the alliance. And with and this specifically looking at cyberattacks. We are divided into two parts really want to be dependent on the Chinese Government when everything goes wrong my argument is probab that the same and then Brigadier General problem that you have another democracies is that intense would join us for part number interest in the telecom two. Thank you very much for your time today your ex military the house of representatives before being elected senator industry dont want to see change and quite frankly they but the commentator on Us Foreign Affairs and are not capable to deploy that particularly the us and china urelationship and you and i have known each other for many type of network that we try
Of being responsible for saving daylight. Its time for daylight to learn to save itself. Thats right. [ cheers and applause ] yes, we got an extra hour of sleep, but we also got an extra hour of donald trump being president of the united states. Id like to set my calendar ahead a year. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] as of today were one day short of a year from the next president ial election. Interesting fact. At this point in 2015 a year ahead of the election you know who the republican frontrunner was . For real. Dr. Ben carson. [ laughter ] and then he woke up and it was all just a dream and then he went back to sleep. But at the white house today the president played host to the world series champion washington nationals. It was a little bit confusing. He was under the impression he was hosting white nationalists, not the nationals. [ laughter ] oh, its a baseball team. Thats nice. As players have been known to odo the nationals brought the president a jerzy. But not the usu
I think we will go ahead and get started or good morning. I am the Vice President here. I am delighted to welcome you to todays important and timely event. Many of you know, we were founded 35 years ago by members of congress as an independent, nonpartisan National Institute charged with the vitally Important Mission of preventing, mitigating, and resolving violent conflict abroad. Odays topic is near and dear we have had an office since 2002 and are working closely with the afghan u. S. Governments and others to address underlying causes of the stability and violence. Dedicated considerable effort in the last care years to support research, dialogue, skill building workshops, and policy analysis both here in washington and afghanistan. Throughout all of our efforts to hold fast to the conviction that the Peace Process to be sustainable, it must be inclusive. We recently held a workshop in istanbul with work leaders from afghanistan, most of whom participated in various a couple of mon
Months and years that followed the u. S. Media documented frequent stories of desertion, drug use combat refusal. Racial conflict. Challenges to let a legitimate authority. And scandals and atrocities. Internal military documents tell the same story. In the thinking about what happens, we suggested that things are different before 1968. As we Start Talking about post that. Im giving you a clear picture. The most common claim that originated in the military is that in vietnam that the United States had the best trained, best equipped, best disciplined force in their history. There was a lot of high morale. You had a general westmoreland who said that their performance exceeded my expectations. And journalists in 1966 saying that morale is remarkably high. And a former combat historian who insists that if morale was bad we would know about it. More than anything else i wanted to point to the briefing that was given to the secretary in saigon in 1967. Where they said that morale was excep
Meriwether. So they werent aware that the spanish were after them but they they did learn later that the spanish had turned these other expeditions. Great question. Anything. Well, thanks for your attention. I hope you enjoyed this the Marshall Foundation was begun by president truman before left office. He declared general marshalls papers from his long should not be gathered at the National Archives as other government officials, but that should have a foundation in his name and the papers and memorabilia be gathered in something akin to a president ial library. How are you funded . Privately funded. We are a501c3. Were not associated with the state of virginia or, the National Park service. And although are surrounded by the vmi campus, were not part of the Virginia Military either. Tell us more about. The foundations work, its outreach of teachers and and the kinds of goals that you have. The foundation exists to tell the story specifically general marshall and others whom we hold