Good afternoon everybody. My name is thomas mahnken, Senior Research professor and ceo of the center for repeated and its my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book. The big stick, the big stick the limits of soft power and the neccessity of military force. What were going to do is let the authors always should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the last word. What im going todo his first turn to my colleague , ambassador eric edelman, a practitioner here at skype and counselor to the center for strategic and budgetary assessment for comments. Ill turn to my other friend and colleague, how branch, Henry A Kissinger distinguished professor of Global Affairs for his comments. And we will turn to the office, to elliott and then opened the floor to you for your questions, and go from there. So with no further do, eric. Thank you, great to be here. I think its important that every book event remember the important part of a book event is to sell books
Good afternoon everybody. My name is thomas mahnken, Senior Research professor and ceo of the center for repeated and its my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book. The big stick, the big stick the limits of soft power and the neccessity of military force. What were going to do is let the authors always should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the last word. What im going todo his first turn to my colleague , ambassador eric edelman, a practitioner here at skype and counselor to the center for strategic and budgetary assessment for comments. Ill turn to my other friend and colleague, how branch, Henry A Kissinger distinguished professor of Global Affairs for his comments. And we will turn to the office, to elliott and then opened the floor to you for your questions, and go from there. So with no further do, eric. Thank you, great to be here. I think its important that every book event remember the important part of a book event is to sell books
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everybody. Im a Senior Research professor for the budgetary assessment and it is my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book softcover and the necessity of military force. What we are going to do because the author should always have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give up the last word so what im going to do is first turned to my colleague for his comment and i will turn to my other colleague at the Global Affairs for his comment. Then we will turn to the author and opened th open the floor tor your question and go from there. With no further ado. Its great to be here. I think its important to remember the important part of the book event is to sell books for the office i think all of you need to get a copy of the book particularly the Television Audience you need to get a copy. Its available on amazon. And its a very important book. We are making on groundhogs day and that is very apropos. For those that dont know, h
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everybody. Im a Senior Research professor for the budgetary assessment and it is my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book softcover and the necessity of military force. What we are going to do because the author should always have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give up the last word so what im going to do is first turned to my colleague for his comment and i will turn to my other colleague at the Global Affairs for his comment. Then we will turn to the author and opened th open the floor tor your question and go from there. With no further ado. Its great to be here. I think its important to remember the important part of the book event is to sell books for the office i think all of you need to get a copy of the book particularly the Television Audience you need to get a copy. Its available on amazon. And its a very important book. We are making on groundhogs day and that is very apropos. For those that dont know, h
Government owes the responsibility for the cost about that milestone i would be happy to sit down with Committee Staff to walk through what you need to ensure that you do have confidence that all of the statutory requirements in terms of cost estimate doc Acquisition Program and documentations is just like a milestone in be will prepare them for you and walk through it with hugh if we need to establish a milestone. I dont hesitate to do that. Is important to have that very specific items even with the initial testimony that they would cost 200 million and it when you have been asked to justify those changes against it will be good to have the specific items to check off if we go forward. We will work with the staff Going Forward. If i may, i would say all of these are modifications at least 100 million per ship that cost has not been independent validated but if were that close to have everything ready for the milestone the muscats have the milestone. Although there are not legal requi