You can ask if youre trying to do intelligence to make better policy. On ukraine, i havent really looked hard at it. It was kind of in motion when i got there so i dont think i have a very tutored view of how well we did or didnt do it. Of course it depends a lot on what you think mr. Putins time horizon and Decision Making was like. I think well make this the last question with one wrapup question from me. Then i think youre all then, after then, invited to a reception outside, too. Joe marks from politico. Want to follow up on the Cyber Security issue that you mentioned a couple of times. You said it was one of the things you were looking at most in the long range. Im wondering how nic looks an issue like cyber where you are looking at technological change over a series of 10 or 15 years as opposed to one Nations National interest. Well me pile on to that since this is the closing question. Lets take that one, and also your expanding to and this is not entirely cyber. Its broader in
Could build for the cost of one of our carriers. Its an interesting statistic, but those missiles are kind of useless without satellite constellations, without isr ground isr status, without an extensive networking system connecting these nodes, without operation centers. There is a certain amount of cost that goes into the delivering of that weapon that gets forgotten about when we do that math. First class hannah nobel. This is a question for dr. Hendricks. You spoke about a submerged arsenal, but if the carriers were to be mixed, what do you propose would replace them, and how would their mission be fulfilled in their absence . So were getting ready to try to field the ohio class replacement. Its coming in with with an estimate of about 6. 6 billion a copy with some estimates up around 7. 2. The original or the four ssgns we have are actually the first four of the original ohio class. Due to treaty limitations, we had to repurpose, so we took them out of service as submarines and we
With his capabilities. Many of us in Higher Education understood that as a challenge to us as well. I was wondering what Higher Education do to be more supportive and useful to you in your mission . Thank you. Thank you, doug. Coming from an institution like George Washington as i look at academia, i count on us having lots of dialogue associated with deterrence at large. Across the Broad Spectrum that i talked about, from the various areas. Nuclear, space cyberspace, but this business also of extremist organizations who would love to have in their hands a weapons of mass destruction, for example. And then talking about the art of deterrence and what do things can we have in the tool bag . Perhaps some of them are not so new, but to make sure they are being gone about as we go forward. Also, in our nation has a whole the education spectrum particularly in cyberspace. Everybody uses it in a big way but the vulnerabilities associated with things. I could go around and ask everybody to ra
What gorbachev to do. Thank you, sir. What i would like to ask our panel is simply to take a minute each and give me your sense of the Lessons Learned on the entire imf experience and how they might apply today for some Lesson Learned, perhaps just professionally. Im going to start by asking myself this question. How good the anchors in 1985 have been so foolish as to believe that a president at the beginning of the president ial campaign, making a Foreign Policy speech that was almost totally different in total towards the soviet union than the tone he took in the first three years not to have in mind that politics might have sent in to do with it. But heavens, the media is so skeptical. Minute, minute, minute. A minute on the meaning of the impact of inf. The principal Lesson Learned in looking at some of the things we talked about here today as you must know the total range of your interest in you must be prepared to serve all of them equally well and not allow yourself to get tangl
Department of Veterans Affairs. Robert Alan Mcdonald of ohio to be secretary. The presiding officer under the previous order, the time until 12 30 will be equally divided in the usual form. Mr. Sanders madam president . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, i rise today in strong support of the nomination of Robert Mcdonald to serve as secretary of the Veterans Affairs administration. Madam president , i also want to thank majority leader reid for moving this important nomination forward as quickly as it has, and i hope very much that later this afternoon, with a very strong vote, the u. S. Senate will vote to confirm Robert Mcdonald as secretary of the v. A. Madam president , before i talk about mr. Mcmcdonalds qualifications, i did want to take a moment to express my sincere thanks to generic shinseki for his dedicated service to our nation, first as a soldier and then as head of the v. A. , working ti