The 75th anniversary of the cold war. With me today is dr. William hitchcock, the professor of history at the university of virginia. Dr. Hitchcock is the author of several books on the cold war, most recently the age of Eisenhower America and the world in the 1950s. Published in 2018 by simon and schuster. Will, welcome and ask for joining us. William thank you, good to be with you. Looking forward to a conversation. Sean lets get to it. In surveying the 45 years of the cold war and its impact, one could argue that it fundamentally changed the constitutional framework of the American Government, that it was this period that saw the greater concentration of power in the president at the expense of the congress, that more than ever in our history because of the challenges of the cold war our National Course is now set by the personality of the president. Would you agree with that . William well, yes, i would agree with that. And i think its been characteristic of the presidency over the
Festival. This panel is called reagan, life and fact and fission. Im the a column is in for the san Antonio Express news and im excited to be part of the panel with two great writers who in very different ways look at the legacy of Ronald Reagan. Before we get started want to let you know that both authors will be signing books in the reference area on the second floor right after the session, and a portion of the proceeds from the book sales benefit the San Antonio Public Library foundation. Also, this panel will air on cspan 2 on april 30th. Were going to devote the last 10, 15 minutes for questions so well do our best to give everyone a chance to ask questions. To my far left, h. W. Brand. Holds the university of texas at austin, and the New York Times best selling author, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for First American and traitor to his class, he as written on roosevelt, ulysses grant, andrew jackson, and his latest book is reagan the life to my immediate left, Tho
Andrew krepinevich and barry watts talk about their book at the pentagons office and the pentagons think tank from 1973 to 2015. The coauthors are former members of marshalls staff. This event was held at the nixon president ial library and museum in yorba linda california. [applause] tonights discussion is that Andrew Marshall who served from nixon to obama. He retired january at the ripe age of 93 years old. For his pioneering work called the hidden hand before and behind American Foreign policy. His two former aides, let me back up for a second. What is significant is nixon tapped marshall to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries at the time namely the soviet union to the concept is called net assessment. His former aides Andrew Krepinevich and sub diver here to discuss the achievements of their mentor tonight and sign copies of their biography about him called the lost warrior Andrew Marshall and shaping of modern defense strategy. Mr. Krepinevichs it i
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen some Asian countries employ sophisticated mass-surveillance technologies normally employed to gather intelligence for domestic security purposes to contain the spread of infection in their populations. There has also been an intrusion of military and allied national security actors into the traditionally civilian domain of public health, in the