Im going to say couple of quick words before turning things over to travis to highlight his report and field your questions. Two things i want to mention. First, this is an important event here for us at csba. Defense corps analysis is something we have done for decades, uniquely well, and travis, the author of this report, is the latest in a long line of very talented Defense Budget analysts who have spearheaded these efforts for us over the years. I think it is important to note the Defense Budget analysis we do here is not just about dissecting Defense Budgets, not just about going line by line to understand precisely what is in the budget, but assessing and analyzing budgets whether budgets match strategy or they dont. Right now, we have an interesting situation where 18 months ago the department of defense released its National Defense strategy which called for a significant reorientation on the part of dod. Focused on highend conventional warfare against great power competitors i
This was produced by the center for strategic and budgetary assessments. Montgomery, here at the center for strategic and budgetary assessments, and i want to thank you for joining us as we rollout our latest report, due dollars follow strategy, by travis sharp, a Research Fellow here who also directs our budget studies program. I will say a couple of quick words. Travis can highlight the findings of his report and field your questions, but two things i want to mention. First, this is an important event for us here at cspi. Defense budget csba. Defense budget analysis is something we have done here for decades and something we have done extremely well, and travis hayes the latest in a long line in a travis is the latest long line of analysts who have spearheaded these efforts over the years. It is important to note that the Defense Budget analysis we do here is not about dissecting Defense Budgets, not just about going through line by line to understand what is in the budget. It is abo
Mass destruction. He spoke to the Arms Control Association about the Trump Administration strategy for north korea, relations with russia and the iran nuclear agreement. Welcome back everyone. Welcome back then please find your seats so we can resume here at the Arms Control Association net annual meeting with our first keynote speaker of the day. Thank you. Once again, im darrell kimball, director of the Arms Control Association. My friends are here for our 2017 Arms Control Association annual meeting. Please to have with us today Christopher Ford whose special assistant to the president and senior director for weapons of mass instruction and counter proliferation policy at the National Security council. Chris who has extensive experience on these issues has been on the professional staff of the Senate Relations committee, banking committee, easter on the personal staff of a senator Susan Collins as her National Security advisor and before that he served at the state department as a s
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