For good morning the latest developments and a look back at whats been happening over the last 7 days to watch in the weekly here on r. T. International now another black man has died at the hands of police sparking violent unrest in the u. S. City of atlanta the citys police chief resigned after an officer fatally shot the africanamerican man while he was being arrested on saturday night. I. Brooks was asleep in his car blocking the drive thru of a Fast Food Restaurant late on friday an official report says that employees called police to complain when officers arrived brooks was breath tested and failed but he then resisted arrest investigators claimed in the struggle he managed to grab one of the officers tasers before fleeing police push on foot and during the chase brooks was said to have turned and pointed the taser at an officer it was at this moment he was reportedly shot brooks was taken to hospital but died after surgery a lawyer for the Family Claims Police acted atrociously
It for you. I think that so just to say this book is a book about military adaptation and its about how different players adapted over time and i begin the book at the end of the cold war and as i was casting around for a way to frame whats happened since then i found jim moses comments in his confirmation hearing extraordinarily apt its a rather prescient deer of the International Security environment of the ninetys but it really comes down to that one phrase where he says we slain a large dragon talking about this so he but now we find ourselves in a jungle filled with a broader and broader for the snakes and in many ways the dragon was easier to keep track of and i think what hes trying to say here is that weak states failing states and nonstate actors are the principal threat of the 99 is a. Minute or until it is the total color and. Its also way of categorising and its essentially putting legitimate state actors like russia or china into the same group as nonstate actors like isis
Confirmation hearing extraordinarily apt its a rather prescient dear of the International Security environment of the ninetys but it really comes down to that one phrase where he says was slain a large dragon talking about the soviet union well now we find ourselves in a jungle still with a broader and broader for the snakes and in many ways the dragon was easier to keep track of and i think what hes trying to say here is that weak states failing states and nonstate actors are the principal threat of the 99. 00 is a. Minute or until it is the total call and. Its also we have categorizing and its essentially putting legitimate state actors like russia or china into the same group as nonstate actors like isis and object terrorist groups isnt just al just a little bit to give this to folks contrary i mean if you are not with asio or against that. So actually i think hes making the opposite point what hes saying is there are 2 different characters that are very different from each other th
Thanks for joining us here for the weekly. Another black man has died at the hands of police sparking violent unrest in the u. S. City of atlanta the citys police chief resigned after an officer fatally shot the africanamerican while he was being arrested on saturday night coming up camera footage of the incident must warn you you may find these images disturbing. It was. Late on friday Police Received a call that a black man was sleeping in his car while waiting in the queue at the burger drive through rashad brooks was breath tested and failed but then resisted arrest during the struggle that ensued he appears to grab an officers taser and later points it while fleeing this moment that he was shot and died later in hospital a lawyer for the Family Claims Police acted atrociously. He lays there dying. The answer stand around one kid something flips them over in the witnesses tell us that which we cant see on camera but they filmed it they went to the still face. I wonder why so there
Or in your state adversaries russia china perhaps and then there are a completely different category which is the nonstate actors what he calls the snake and my argument in the book is that weve spent basically 20 years focusing on snakes on only particularly one snake International Islamic extremism and the related terrorism and i think that the world that rules he describes in 993. 00 was an accurate description for maybe 10 years but it is out of date now and we now harness if you like maladapted to the modern environment its interesting at the same because i had a chance to interview mr holmes a few years back that on the u. S. Russia relationship actually struck me as somebody that very. Well here and. He was speaking about russia as a School Principal to talk about hes behaving student and i thinking even viewed the world as a dram that the United States. Needs the time has long gone dont you think that batman of war no longer thinks the world that we all. So i actually talk abou