Its will on a minority group. So there are all kinds of reasons for violence. But one of the phenomenon that we are now seeing is he very specific promotion of violent extremism that oftentimes is twisting and distorting. And i think ultimately defying the hedicts of one of the worlds great religions, islam, and groups like al shabab and isil and boko haram. And the question is how do we fight back against those ideologies that allows us still to be true to the values of peace and tolerance and due process and rule of law. So the United States is obviously committed to this fight against terrorism. And we are working with countries and partnering with countries all around the world to go after, whether it is al qaeda, boko haram. But what weve also said is in order to defeat the extremist ideologies it couldnt just be police, military and security. It has to be reaching into communities that feel marginalized and making sure they feel they are hurt. Making sure the young people in thos
Spec. I think theyre very capable to get the job done. I dont think any of us know about korea i dont know where they are to develop a nuclear weapon. I dont know exactly what their intentions are with the Ballistic Missile strike capabilities but we know where they are moving toward we have to be prepared for that eventuality as well. Dave mitchell leaving great detail all the preparations is something to Pay Attention to every day. Do they have the missile capable to reach the u. S. Right now . I am saying this from newspaper articles. But whether they have capability certainly want to reach hawaii. That is what we are worried about. Of a joint force command in the event of the apparent attack could you give us some idea . The discussion i would not call it a debate as discussion involves the secretary of the error force the commander of u. S. Strategic command the the voices with policy experts from National Security experts. As we try to help commandandcontrol architecture with a g
Good morning, this Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on recent Navy Collisions at sea, including uss lake champlain, uss fitzgerald and the uss John S Mccain, as well as the rounding of the uss antietam. We welcome our witnesses, the honorable richard spencer, secretary of the navy, admiral john richardson, chief of Naval Operations and start on an, director of defense for structure and readiness issues at the Government Accountability office. I would like to take a moment to recognize family members who lost loved ones in the fitzgerald and mccain collisions, who are here with us today as honored guests. Ofm the fitzgerald, the wife a chief petty officer, parents of a petty officer third c lass, parents and brother of a petty officer first class. Stepmother of a seaman , father of a petty officer first class, and from the mccain, the wife of a petty officer first class and his , along with her wife. Officer of a petty first class, mother and brother of a petty up with
Can we do this better the biggest thing that i iran into. When i was engaging in the larger thinking community and larger academic trinity is this challenge of getting past iran. That we can ironically to go to understand as well as the idea that iran is irrational. What i consider the mad problem is that iran is too crazy and both of these ideas really handicap us. A train and been able to understand what iran is thinking about and how it looks at the us and formulates its foreign policies. Thats the heart of what i am trying to do in this monogram is take the face off that confusion and say you cant understand this and its what im trying to do. Its not so much provide a whole bunch of policies policy prescription with this administration or for future administrations but basically, provide analytic framework and models, if you will, for understanding how iran develops its foreign policies, how iran develops its approaches in particular to Security Issues and how it goes to war, how i
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