The Ohio State University and senior fellow at Cato Institute. Finally, Jackie Schneider at stanford university. Thank you very much for the introduction. I am grateful for events hosted back in the before days. I was able to meet with colleagues and talk about ideas that make their way into this book eventually. Im grateful to be on our panel like this, i think i cited most, if not all of you in this book. It is my privilege to share this with you. This book comes out of my personal experiences in uniform in the u. S. Navy so i thought i would start with this. The first is back in 1999, my first job in the navy, i was a targeted officer working at the u. S. Headquarters. A short air campaign against the modern state ended with no fatalities to a lot of people, this looks like a big Success Story for technology, new american way of war. Revolutionary wars but we made a lot of mistakes including blowing up the chinese industry. This was a mistake that was coordination failures, lots of
Jim slife attorney commander general jim slife. I am really happy to welcome general james slife, commander of air force special Operations Command. Welcome. For those of you who dont know a lot about air force special Operations Command, of the air force component of u. S. Special Operations Command, it has approximately 20,800 activeduty reserves and Air National Guard and civilian professionals underneath him. He was born outside detroit, michigan and grew up in hot springs, arkansas. He was commissioned through the the program and has spent majority of his career in operations and has deployed extensively long and other type of aircraft. Its great to have you. Thank you. Todayood to be with you and i appreciate the opportunity to honor offer a few remarks and i look forward to getting into the questions. As i think about the opportunities in front of us as we sit here in 2020. This is a really exciting time to be at the air force special Operations Command. Career, imck on my the f
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