All right, i think well get started here. Thank you so much for joining us here at the heritage foundation, release of a major paper, which will be the focus. I was told we dont necessarily have to talk about silencing cell phones. We have a robust online audience, and, you know distractions, we want to minimize that here. Thank you for joining us here. Were going to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its one of a series, actually the third paper thats out. The first one talked about how to think about the future, the one released one on the marine corps, this is a major paper on the army and how to think about its relationship with the imperatives of the National Defense strategy, National Security strategy, how the world is changing, and some recommendations for what the army needs to be and the path it needs to go down to get to where it needs to be with a look out to about the 2030 year time frame. Well follow up with a paper on the air force, which i think is coming o
Anyway. We usually have a very robust online audience and the distractions we want to minimize here. Thank you for joining us here. We want to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its one of a series, actually the third paper thats out. The first one talked about how to think about the future, then we released one to the marine corps, this is a major paper on the army and how to think about its relationship with the imperatives of the National Defense strategy, National Security strategy and how the world is changing and recommendations for what the army needs to be and the path it needs to go down to get where it needs to be with a look out to about the 20 30year time frame and follow up with the paper on the air force which i think is coming up next month and then wrap up by the end of the year with the paper on the navy so well have all four Services Covered and how to think about preparations for the future. These papers are meant to give an independent perspective, advi
All right, i think well get started here. Thank you so much for joining us here at the heritage foundation, release of a major paper, which will be the focus. I was told we dont necessarily have to talk about silencing cell phones. We have a robust online audience, and, you know distractions, we want to minimize that here. Thank you for joining us here. Were going to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its one of a series, actually the third paper thats out. The first one talked about how to think about the future, the one released one on the marine corps, this is a major paper on the army and how to think about its relationship with the imperatives of the National Defense strategy, National Security strategy, how the world is changing, and some recommendations for what the army needs to be and the path it needs to go down to get to where it needs to be with a look out to about the 2030 year time frame. Well follow up with a paper on the air force, which i think is coming o
Here. You can watch the rest of it online at cspan. Org. We go watch the heritage foundation, where Lieutenant General thomas ford is set to speak on his report on modernizing the u. S. Army. Im told we dont necessarily have to talk about silencing cell phones, but im going to save anyway. We usually have a robust online audience and we want to minimize distractions. Thank you for joining us. We are going to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its actually the third paper out, the first talked about how to think about the future, and we released one in the marine corps. This is a major paper on the army, and how to think about its relationship with National Security strategy and how the world is changing, and some recommendations for the path of with ay needs to go down look out to a 30 year timeframe. We will follow off with a paper follow up with a paper on the air force next month, wrapping up by the end of the year with a paper on the navy so we have all four Services C
Welcome to the Washington Times for this special episode of history. As it welcome to hthe Washington Times. Well talk about the iraq war, 20 years on. On march 20, 2003, president bush announced that the United States was invading iraq and wars of mass destruction. The weapons did not exist. We were not greeted add liberators. Why . Im delighted to discuss this important topic with you. Welcome to the Washington Times. This is the author of confronting saddam hussian and president george w. Bush and the invasion of iraq. Youve been working on this book quite a while. You seemed reluctant to take on this project to begin with. Why . I was reluctant for two reasons. First i was trying to finish up work that i was doing on the evolution of the cold war, topic of which ive written a great deal about. And secondly, and most importantly, i was reluctant to take it on because it was really contemporary history and the availability of primary source documents would be very limited. Im a histo