Service in washington, moscow and the united nations. To his right, the policy director for the Norwegian Ministry of defense. He served as director general or Security Policy director for the Norwegian Defense since 1995 and in that capacity really became known as the father of nato Security Policy. Its a delight to have you with us. He also served at nato headquarters and is one of the architects of this project that were working on. And the director here at the Atlanta Council who will speak about the terms in the cyber realm. He served as a policy director at the white house, as executive director at Goldman Sachs asia and u. S. Air force Intelligence Officer in the recently published a fierce domain, terrific history of prior conflict in cyberspace. So with that let me come back to you to kick off this discussion given the world that fred laid out what is the relevance of the meaning of deterrence as we look into the future . Thank you for the easy questions that you have posed to
That afghanistan no longer has al qaeda sanctuaries still to be true. I would like to preserve that a combo spent by giving the afghans enough strength so that they can hold together their own country. We are justs is about their and they show that yesterday, doing 95 of the work yet again. They are doing 95 of the work and taking 95 of the casualties of all Coalition Forces and yesterday, they were the ones securing the polling places. We are well on our way to an exit strategy. Host the Defense Department reported in march, no casualties in afghanistan. Guest no american for tallies, and that is the first time in six or seven years. That really proves that things are Getting Better for us but the war remains intense between the taliban and the afghans. Let me not be confusing, but im so optimistic i want to poohpoh oh the threat. Casualtiesare taking at 400 per month based on the latest data. They are fighting hard and losing a lot of people. But they can recruit offering jobs people
And the comments. The house begins its debate on budget plans. A busy week in congress. We will focus on the upcoming Midterm Elections. Our phone lines are open you can join in on the conversation on facebook. Send us a tweet at cspanwj. Or send us an email at journal cspan. Org. New york times has the voting in afghanistan front and center. A also the front page of the Washington Post Michael Ohanlon will be joining us later in the program to offer his perspective on the voting that took place in afghanistan and what is next for the u. S. Troops. Politico is reporting on the ap story that is getting a lot of attention over the weekend off of the coast of australia in the south indian ocean. It says the Australian Air chief said yesterday that the agency cannot verify any connection between the signals and Malaysian Airline flight 370. And this from cq weekly, focusing on money team and the appropriators. Congress continues its debate on budget priorities. He writes for the Washington
Force an investigation the new. The mom and be a puppet what you see it firstly this hour as it monty sixty fifth anniversary this week make that decided to hold its cooperation with moscow over the ukrainian crisis the need was met with widespread criticism of the fizz of cold war tensions being recounted here. We used to make a statement. We have decided to suspend all practical civilian and military cooperation between nato and russia. Up to its cause i welme an aid to Russia Council can continue is necessary and the ambassador level in the box to allow us to exchange views must be foremost on the crisis. My true soul mate to bolster its military presence in Eastern Europe and the ball takes more than two decades on from the cold will be lots continues to see part of its mission of defending europe from the seat cushion fact that moscow from a palm into an opponent could prove damaging for Global Security as marina pulled not expect i suspect the military and Security Cooperation wi
Photos so he show that there are Syrian Refugees on every square turf of lebanon. He said they cant take any more people. Whats the likelihood in 2014 of lebanon closing their borders to Syrian Refugees . Im going to try would you agree that would be a bad situation . To keep that from happening. Trying im trying to plan for the worst case. The worst Case Scenario would be a lot more refugees streaming out of syria. The amazing thing to me is that not more have. They clearly are trying to stay put. I think the worst Case Scenario would be if they had no place to go. Whats the likelihood of lebanon and jordan closing their borders because their countries sovereignty and security is at risk, to Syrian Refugees in 2014 . We have seen that what is happening is that the borders have already been moved from being open in most cases to being managed. Could you give me a plan, lets assume for the worst now, what would our response be as the world and as a nation if in 2014, god for bid, the le