Host a conversation on military readiness and the threat we face. Od, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing military strength is a major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Gather all Public Information we can come across. Thecial testimonies from pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs. General news reporting from the community and our personal contacts in the services and pentagon. We gather all that all year long, go through analysis and writing processes, prepare last years information and this years and then issue a report card on the military. This year on a scale of one to five we would give it a marginal. We feel the u. S. Military at large is marginally able to meet the demands of National Security requirements. Meaning they can handle one major conflict in one part of the world, but not much more than that. We think it needs to be more than that because the u. S. Has global interests and responsibilities. Host the u. S. Military
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Hello they are watching r. T. International armor is on a lock would welcome to the program. But this baghdad says it is someone in the Us Ambassador over the latest airstrikes on iraq and syria that killed 25 people iraq Officials Say they were not able to prevent the attack with their objections being ignored by washington. I said this was a very dangerous matter and asked to discuss it face to face with the responsible parties not only by phone he said the decision has been made and i am informing you of this. After the attack hundreds of protesters gathered on the streets of the iraqi capital they condemned the u. S. s try some expressed support for the militia who were bombed u. S. Special representative for iraq brian hoke has defended the operation system it was meant to tell reign and aggression on. The u. S. State department has defended the decision to conduct air strikes in iraq and syria saying that this was done to deter the influence of iran in the region now 25 people we
And is personally thank donald trump for a tip off from u. S. Intelligence which helped a terrorist plot in St Petersburg medina corps chain of reports. Russias federal Security Service detain 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of St Petersburg according to the Security Service these people in question were planning terrorist attacks in crowded places during a new years celebrations it was also reported that avid and shutting the lights on some of their intentions was also the scene well they were being detained Russian Federal Security Service a mages these the rest on the 27th of december following information that was received from their american colleagues now some may say that it was a significant step in the relationships between the 2 countries and in a telephone conversation the russian president Vladimir Putin thanked his american counterpart donald trump for this piece of data that helped prevent these attacks they prevented what
Hello good morning just on 9 oclock here in moscow you with r. T. International. Has personally thank donald trump for a tipoff from u. S. Intelligence which helped foil a terrorist plot in simply to get more details now from detail hes following the story course here despite all the differences between the 2 countries it does seem there is at least Common Ground when it comes to fighting terrorism. Well just to give you some background to this Russias Federal Security Service that is the f. S. B. Announced on friday 2 russian citizens who were planning on committing terrorist attacks on home soil was arrested it is said that the incident was going to take place in some widely called the countrys 2nd capital often called the venice of the north because of its canals and it was going to take place in the new year which is of course now just one day away at this point in time we dont have any for details on the individuals apprehended but what i can say of course is that a new hair in ru