Postdivorceier says trade talks are underway, and the u. K. Much must offer more. We have breaking news in south korea. It was a data dump morning. The surplus widening. Year on year, 6 billion. Industrial output rising 2. 7 . This is also for the month of august. That is well above what economists had estimated at a gain of 1. 3 . The number to really watch is the factory output, the industrial output, 2. 7 . We did see a revision and inkage or decline, 0. 2 down 0. 2 in prior months. A lot of the focus is on how these numbers have been changing with the geopolitical tensions in north korea. Is that going to dampen consumer demands and outlook for south korea . Yvonne mark yvonne it is interesting, month on month numbers in industrial production, i saw weakness in the month of august, less than expected at 0. 4 . We saw that survey this morning, looking less positive when it comes to manufacturing, as well as the export growth manufacturing. Export growth, we saw 31 jump from a year a
In the atlantic, and the soviet conquest between the soviet union and moscow. They are successful pushing into west germany, and seizing iceland. The narrative centers on the u. S. Nato as they try and get more resources in order to turn back the soviet tied. Eventually, nato was able to establish a bit of a stalemate, buying enough time for reenforcements to arrive in the United States. The broad scope of the book, allowed clancy and larry bond to examine what modern war would look like and prevents the nearexhaustive look for both sides and in its appeal to reagan, is a World War Three scenario n which united stat scenario in which United States wins but not engaging in a nuclear event. The book approaches its climax and becomes clear to the soviets they cannot win consequently, hard liners attempt to bring about the use of new weapons. This muteultimately leads to a , and take control of the government, ultimately ending the war. Clancy and bond construct the narrative this way inte
Policy seems toe contradict any notion he sought to eliminate the weapons. Strategic forces received an increase in funding as he saw the to the modernize all three legs of ballistic bombers, missiles and submarines. To relaunch the b 1 program, to modernize existing bomber force, improve the trident missile. He will produced an additional 17,000 warheads by 1987, a significant increase over the plans of the carter administration. By 1985, u. S. Nuclear forces were more lethal and technically advanced than at any point. American history. It presents a strong con taft to the focus on arms control and arms reduction in his second. Creating a tantalizing narrative of it his sudden reversal. However, the shift in tone is a bit less stark when viewed through the vision of how to achieve vision. Reagan viewed military strength as essential to establishing peace and identified establishing a sound eastwest balance as essential to peace, as well. When he assumed office, he and his National Sec
Watch it live or on demand or on your smart phones or tablets. Hillary clintons historic acceptance speech on thursday night on cspan radio app and cspan. Org. Up next, captain Benjamin Griffin talks about president reagan and the soviet union moves to the diplomatic forefront. The is an hour and 40 minutes event. Now, let me introduce ben griffin who graduated in the academy of 2006 and commissioner of intelligence officer. He served while deployed in iraq in 2007 and 2008 and as an assistant in brigade in 2011. Hes currently assigned to the United States academy as a industry instructor. His military award and declarations, hes currently abd for the university of texas of austin and working on the dissertation and National Security policy of Ronald Reagan. His Research Includes grand strategi strategies, American Foreign relations and the cold war. Ben holds a bachelor of science from the United States military academy. A master of art from the university of arizona. A master of hist
War games that were waged, you know, between allied commanders, nato warsaw pact, the exchange of Nuclear Weapons was off the charts. The tactical Nuclear Weapons would be expanded to the point where in three or four days hundreds of them would be fired by both sides. So what were seeing in these kind of books i met hackett before he died, a great officer, captured at arnham, et cetera. But here hes writing a book about conventionally stopping the soviets. And i think there was sort of a fantasy about that, that we frankly still live with. We still have Nuclear Weapons in the world. We still are numb to this. And i wonder what you think about that. Because the reality is that when the war games occurred in classified settings, they would just shoot those damn things off and destroy humanity. Those god damn things off and destroy humanity. Thats not necessarily reflected in sort of techno porn books like clancy does, which are basically feel good things that sort of america wins. The ba