Gentlemen. Thank you so much for coming to the American Enterprise institute. Im fred kagan, the direct of the critical project here at aei. And if it is my great honor and privilege to lead this panel, discussing report which is just been released by my colleagues, matt mcinnis, the future of irans security policy, Available Online at aei. Org and where these beautiful copies as well if anyone would like one of those. We have a Magnificent Panel today. We are thrilled to have Lieutenant General tom trask, Vice Commander of headquarters u. S. Special Operations Command in washington, d. C. , and vice admiral retired mark fox, formerly Deputy Commanding general of the nested Central Command along with matt to talk about the report. Without further ado i will turn it over to matt. Thank you, fred. Thank you, general trask and admiral fox and fred, for frankly every thing here at aei yourself put this event together. As well as all the people behind the scenes for the past two, 2 years th
Departments plan to reform its command structure. The changes are aimed at updating language of the 1986 Goldwater Nichols act to meet the demands of modern warfare and to add cyberinto the command structure. This is 50 minutes. Welcome. Were delighted to have you here. It shouldnt be this cold in april. I came down from new york this morning and it was snowing in wilmington. What the ll . But were going to warm it up this afternoon. Were going to have an excellent opportunity to talk with secretary carter. Thank you all for coming. A brief security announcement. He has a security detail. Theyre going to watch out for him. Im going to watch out for all of you. If we have a problem, i would ask you to follow my instructions. Our exits are right here behind us. This is the door thats closest to the steps that go down to the street. If theres a problem out in front were going to go in the back and go over to the National Geographic society. We have an arrangement with them. If theress a p
Clearly and unapologetically, instead of negotiating with terrorism, we will rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian Nuclear deal. [applause] we will defeat radical islamic terrorism and we will utterly destroy isis. [applause] we will have a president who keeps us safe. To the soldiers and sailors, the airmen and marines, the Police Officers and firefighters and First Responders who risk their lives so to keep us safe, we will have a commanderinchief who has your back. [applause] jobs freedom and security, that , is what this next election is all about. In 1980, milton and Rose Friedman wrote free to choose. They explain that the American Free enterprise system has been the greatest engine for opportunity and prosperity, that the world has ever seen. Too much government can stifle opportunity. But if we get washington out of the way, then there is no limit to what we can accomplish. [applause] it is what allowed my dad to leave cuba and come to america with nothing, washing dishes mak
One of the wonderful things we noticed was that the last quarter of the main script, the did not had sewn match the earlier one. This confirms my suspicion the end have been written later. You cannot see that on the microfilm. It was a wonderful thing to see that in person. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Defense secretary Ashton Carter unveiled new plans to update the Defense Departments command structure. He discussed other changes at the pentagon that would try to limit redundancy and excessive documentation. For strategicr and International Studies, this is just under one hour. [applause] mr. Hamre good afternoon, everybody. We are delighted to have you here. It shouldnt be this cold in april. I can down from new york where it was snowing in wilmington, and i thought, what the hell . We are to warm up this afternoon and we are going to have an excellent opportunity to talk with secretary carter. Thank you all for coming. A brief security announcement he has a security d
Negotiating objective. This is straightforward improvement in the act and makes no changes in the language that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis by the committee. The only change is the is to move it from section 2a11 to the end of section 2b. The reason relates to effective enforcement in the rule of law dwoesh dwoesh negotiating objectives. In particular, the dispute settlement objectives require ustr to seek provisions that treat the United States principal negotiating objectives yawly with respect to the availability to resort to dispute settlement under the applicable, availability of equivalent remedies. As for principle trade objective, objectives. Therefore, by moving this from overall to principle, we do get the enforcement that i have been talking about at some time. Mr. Chairman let me just make this clear and ill be glad to ask mr. White the question. We have cleared with the ustr that this amendment is consistent with their negotiations of the trans pa sifb community a