Good morning. Im mark moore, director for the center of military and diplomatic history here csis. We are delighted to host sir Lawrence Freedman this morning. I see some familiar faces as host of new ones which is great. As most of you in this got i think understand well, the idea of forcing the future in principle holds great appeal, so much of what we do in washington in terms of allocating resources, developing capabilities and dividing strategies is based upon our expectations of the military environment of the future. The trouble of course is that prediction is difficult. Some would even say impossible. Of course in reading this trip the book i was reminded of a saint by a chinese philosopher that those of knowledge did not predict, and those who predict did not have knowledge. Philip tadlock, the author of the bestselling book super forecasting contested active prediction is not impossible, at least in the shortterm, but he also emphasized that humans are extremely gullible when
Good afternoon and welcome to hudson institute. Im president and ceo of hudson institute. Hudson is a policy Research Organization dedicated to promoting security freedom and prosperity through strong and engaged u. S. International leadership. I want to welcome both our members of the audience and our good friends from cspan as well. One of the most important threats, potential threats in the United States is out of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological and nuclear agents to harm americans. We had this attack the other day in new york. Just imagine how much scarier it would have been had the terrorist had weapons of mass destruction. Preventing such attacks are obviously critical to the president and his team and his 21 speech that outlined a new strategy for overseas. He says we must prevent weapons being used against us and around the world. We have done a lot in the Homeland Security space. I should note we are the home of the bio Defense Commission cha
And Nuclear Energy and commercial Nuclear Energy and talk to us about Nuclear Weapons , but we are lucky to have him staying active and he has become the cochair of the Nuclear Threat initiative, my old boss senator sam nun is the cochair , with him, im delighted, senator, that youre back today, i asked if he wanted to say any remarks, he said hell, no, ill let ernie do that. [laughter] you know. He may rebuttal. We will find out. Charlie curtis, thank you for being here. Charlie and deb, thank you for being here. They have been partners with us in raising so many important issues of our day. Just as a bit of a safety announcement first, in case, we may hear a voice that says we have an emergency. If that happens, please follow my instructions. Weve got an exit right there and one over there that will take us down to the street. Well go down, take two left hand turns once we get there, go to national geographic, ill have hot chocolate waiting for everybody. Nothing is going to happen,
Involved in denuclearization issues in reducing threats from nuclearization former Energy Secretary ernest moniz. This is an hour. Is a great opportunity to welcome back to csi s ernie moniz. When he was Energy Secretary, he was very active with us, and have him talk to with us about anything. He would talk about commercial Nuclear Energy, and he would come and talk with us about Nuclear Weapons, but we are lucky now to have him still staying in town, still staying active, and of course, he has become the cochair of the Nuclear Threat initiative. My old boss, senator sam done, is the cochair with him. I asked if he wanted to say and a remarks, and he said, oh, ernieo, im going to let do that. Charlie curtis, thank you for being here. Just as a bit of a safety announcement first, in case, we may hear a voice that says we have an emergency. If that happens, please follow my instructions. Weve got an exit right there and one over there that will take us down to the street. Well go down, t
Next, defense secretary james mattis and general paul seldom the before the armed Senate Armed Services community. Secretary mattis stressed the need for Stable Funding for the military to be fully trained and ready. This is a 90 minute portion of the hearing before members went to the closed session. The committee will come to order. The Committee Meets today to hear testimony on the nationalations Defense Strategy and Nuclear Posture review. We welcome back the secretary of defense and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to discuss these important documents. I cannot count the number of times i have heard members of this Committee Talk about the importance of having a Defense Strategy to help guide decisions the executive branch have to make. Now we have one. It is a component of the Broader National Security strategy released in december, and it has within it the Nuclear Posture review, the first of its kind since 2010. A lot has changed since 2010. And both documents come at