And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
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The Washington Post hosted halfhour conversation. Robert welcome to Washington Post live. Im robert costa. Today, on our path forward series, which focuses on the pandemic, i am pleased to welcome back dr. Anthony fauci. Dr. Fauci, as you all know, is leading the nations fight against the coronavirus. He is director of the National Institute of allergies and infectious diseases. He has advised president s for decades, including president trump, and he has been praised by president elect biden. Dr. Fauci, welcome back. Dr. Fauci thank you, bob. Its good to be with you. Robert we had questions for our audience members. We will get to them in a moment. Its thanksgiving week. Any lastminute messages for americans who are still undecided on traveling . Dr. Fauci yes, bob, thank you. Obviously each individual family has to make, as i have said over the past few days, a riskbenefit assessment about the risk you are willing to take in traveling and in congregating in the usual warm atmosphere
The Washington Post. This is a half an hour. Robert welcome to Washington Post live. Im robert costa. Today, on our path forward series, which focuses on the pandemic, im pleased to welcome back dr. Anthony fauci. Dr. Fauci, as you all know, is leading the nations fight against the coronavirus. He is director of the National Institute of allergies and infectious diseases. He has advised president s for decades, including President Trump, and he has been praised by president elect biden. Dr. Fauci, welcome back. Fauci. Dr. Fauci thank you, bob. Its good to be with you. Robert we had questions for our audience members. We will get to them in a moment. Its thanksgiving week. Any lastminute messages for americans who are still undecided on traveling . Dr. Fauci yes, bob, thank you. Obviously each individual family has to make, as i have said over the past few days, a riskbenefit assessment about the risk you are willing to take in traveling and in congregating in the usual warm atmosphere
Halfhour interview. Today i am pleased to welcome back dr. Anthony fauci. Thefauci is leading nations fight against the coronavirus. He is director of the National Institute of allergies and infectious diseases. He has advised president s for decades and he has been praised by president elect biden. Welcome back. Questions from our audience members, but first it is thanksgiving week. Any lastminute messages from for americans who are still undecided on traveling . Dr. Fauci every individual family has to make as i have said recently over the past few days a riskbenefit assessment about the risk you are willing to take in traveling and congregating in the usual warm people. Re of 10, 15, 20 although those are wonderful parts of our tradition, i would like each family to make that Risk Assessment and understand we are in a difficult situation where the slope of infections are steep. You may want to reconsider travel plans and try as best as you can to keep congregant meetings indoors as