Welcome to the hudson institute. Ein senior fellow at the institute of we are here to talk with Christian Brose whose new book, the kill chain, is in the future of hightech warfare that Christian Brose just released. Chris is a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services committee an and prior to that e Senior Policy Adviser for senator john mccain and previously held other positions in the government. Right now he is the chief surgeon to build capabilities for the military as well as for the department of homeland security. We can talk about that as we go through the interview. But thank you for being with us today. So, just to start off, what led you to do this but i know youve been thinking about these issues for a while and obviously something that you have encountered during your time onn the surface kennedy and senator mccain is the policy adviser. But what was the genesis of sitting down and writing the entire book . Guest its a great question i ask myself constant const
It seems one thing to rely on his Mission Command in such a way they were willing to use their own initiative, tactics that might not ordinarily be what they returned to based on doctor and. The willingness of us leaders to take advantage of their own initiative and ability to improvise could be an advantage where you have to use your own Unmanned Systems to come up with a tactic in the absence of the planning staff or higher direction. Might be a former competitive edge. The challenge is the United States military, we are much better positioned to do that, an adversary that is very topdown, inherent distrust in the lower ranks, 100 advantage we have but that is something we have to relearn after 20 years where we practice a lot of Mission Command in a lot of places the ladies are structured. That brings me to a point a lot of people will last, on the writing of the subject you dont have to transition to the robot force of Autonomous Systems right away and even at 10 contribution for A
Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
Better than 1 move for the dow. Nasdaq record highs. Big tech taking a bit of a break. You see facebookdown as well as amazon amazon, netflix and microsoft lower. If its tuesday, it must be tilman frittia calling on americas governors to show some real leadership and tell us where the goal posts are on reopening. Power lunch starts right now tyler, thanks. Its Energy Leading the way today. On track for its best day since june 5th it might not matter as much as it used. Bob has more technology stocks, 27 of the s p 500. That doesnt include google which is really a tech company or amazon which is a consumer discretionary. All together top Six Companies are 25 of the s p 500 just about. Its approaching that. Its crazy the rest of the sectors are shrinking. Let me show you what the sectors are today. Energy is only 3 of the s p 500. Now it used to be 5 a few years ago but financials have shrunken dramatically for example, it was 15 of the s p just five years ago. Industrials were 10 now it
Now. Power lunch starts now thanks welcome to power lunch broadcasting from a secure and undisclosed location the nasdaq on pace for its first negative week since june lets go to bob for more on the marks. Bob. Choppy trading but very narrow trading range bio tech sb flat energy, oil has been hugging 40 for a month now. Were down today but up overall in the week. Banks are down but up on the week and had a pretty good week. Amazon down about 8 this week one of the worst week its had in a long time all the damage in netflix has opinion today. The problem is when you have megagabe kaplerture ecagabe kacm players. Thats a head and shoulders, folks round trip the same situation with netflix, really netflix was 500 a couple of weeks ago. It goes to 580 and then its back down to below 500 thats another semi head and shoulders. We keep trying to get over 3230. Were just keep knocking on the doorp that guys have a good weekend. The same to you the Trump Administration is ramping up its rhetori