Threats we face. Our guest is dakota wood, Heritage Foundations 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. National security requirements, meanin
Think in my opinion is really one of the most important stories of our time. Is not been well told until now. Were going to talk about that today. I got to know carter page professionally as an Investigative Reporter covering story i really was blown away by the facts and when you cover stories where household interest in trying to take them and youre not giving the true picture. We will talk about all of that today. Carter, can we start with you giving little brief background of your education, where you went to school and just very briefly, your job experience and career. Yes thank you so much for doing this today and its great to be with you. So i grew up in Dutchess County new york. If i received the nomination for the u. S. Naval academy. I started of the week after i graduated high school. That was in 1989. So i completed annapolis and was then commissioned in the u. S. Navy and served in the u. S. Na navy. First is an armscontrol officer doing International Arms control negotiat
Morning at least a crisp start and a bit of a foggy start to although things are beginning to brighten up now is that fog or treats towards the coastline. Temperatures will be comfortable this morning before a warm afternoon before moderate air quality really takes over yet again that afternoon for the north bay, especially up towards mendocino and lake counties air quality at its worse with poor conditions still up there. Well better green conditions will remain closer to the coast. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures were starting to see temperatures climbing now as things get brighter and brighter pittsburgh livermore at 63 each fairfield are warm spot at 64. Still 40s in santa rosa and say holding up. Later today will be in the 80s for san jose 70s and oakland and San Francisco. Robin. All right. Thank you john another problem on the bay bridge heading into San Francisco this morning, one crash cleared on the eastern span. Now we have a crash involving a motorcyclist west of
John the program is entitled the origins of the militaryindustrial complex and features dr. Daniel ellis, who is this years staff fellow, a prestigious position. He has been using items to investigate the origins of the militaryindustrial complex through wartime and immediate postwar, meaning postworld war ii, evolution between Scientific Research, industry and National Defense. Dan has advised congress on defense issues. I was a colleague of his at crs for several years. Dan did things in connection with things i knew, a whole range of things, defense production act, appropriations, military construction, and he does many more things at crs. He holds a phd in Political Science from George Washington university. And at crs, as many of you know, he is the author of many reports on defense, trade and security. , this project is the latest example of the work undertaken by staff fellows showcasing their knowledge and passion of their areas of expertise. This is funded by a gift left by th
Investigative reporter covering a story and i was really blown away by the fact when you cover stories were powerful interests are trying to shape them and youre not getting the true picture. We will talk about all that today. Carter can we start with you giving a little brief background about your education. Where you went to school, and very briefly your job experience in career . Guest yes, sherrill, think its much during this today its great to be with you. I grew up in Dutchess County new york. And i received eight nomination into the u. S. Naval academy which i started a week after graduating high school in 1989. And so i completed annapolis and was then commissioned in the u. S. Navy and served the u. S. Navy first as an armscontrol action officer during International Arms control negotiations and the pentagon. And then i moved into michael served on a couple of Surface Warfare ships. A couple navy ships in the atlantic than in the middle eas east. Host dont you have a couple of