With all of our upcoming events, podcasts and publications and more on our website at wilsoncenter. Org and in particular, i want to invite you to give a listen to our podcast reference to the x article and the newest podcast, the russia file. Let me just remind everybody tut the conversation and weve already gotten quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email, and please list your name and affiliation as if a live event at the wilson kennan center, and im more likely to call out than if youre unidentified. And fiona hill from Brookings Institution and as many of you know for the Russian Affairs on the National Security council. That was 201719. From 2006, National Intelligence office for russia and eurasia at the National Intelligence council ap coauthor of the wellreceived and widery read book mr. Putin, operative in the kremlin, an update of a previous book. And i want it note that the two of them authored a useful piece still for those of us thinking about russias develop
I want to invite you to give a listen to our ken and podcasts and art art news podcast, the russian file. Let me just remind everybody that throughout the conversation and we forgot quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email, via twitter and facebook pages and please do include your name and affiliation just as if youre attending a live event of the Wilson Center which hope we can do against it. Id be more likely to call on you for not an anonymous blurt out. Im join today i dr. Fiona hill was a senior fellow and center for the next its a joke in the Foreign Policy program of the Brookings Institution and, of course, is that one will knows served as Deputy Assistant to the president and senior director for european and Russian Affairs on National Security council. That was 201719. From 2006nine she also served as National Intelligence officer for russia and eurasia at the National Intelligence council and is coauthor of of the very well received and widely read book mr. Put
Good evening, everybody. Im bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife, lissa muscatine, and on behalf of her but here welcome your think you very much for coming. We are very y pleased to have pl richter with us here this evening. Paul and i crossed paths a lot when i was a journalist with the Washington Post covering the pentagon and he was reporting for the Los Angeles Times based in washington. Over several decades paul wrote about National Security and Foreign Policyy on both the pentagon and then the state department beat come and heal other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose of reporting in this city on National Security affairs and in his new book, the ambassadors, he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlighting the valuable roles played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out four in particular, ryan crocker, robe
Thank you very much for coming. We are very pleased to have paul with us here this evening and was reported from the Los Angeles Times and writing about Foreign Policy with the pentagon and the state department and other important assignment along assignments it with that paper four years ago. As one of those journalistic pros on National Security affairs. To have that knowledge of National Security. And then ryan crocker. Of how senior skills state Department Officers and those intelligence communities like iraq and syria and pakistan olivia one libya to combat terrorism. Have declineo testify. We will be in conversation here with someone else who knows the way around atheir way around thn and state department but as an insider. He spent 29 years in the navy specializing in Public Affairs and rose to become the navys top spokesman and chief spokesman for the department of defense. After retiring from the military in 2015 with the rank of rear admiral, he shifted to the state departmen
In washington over several decades he wrote about National Security and foreignpolicy on both the pentagon and state department and he held other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose in this cityy on the National Security affairs and in his new book he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlight the valuable role played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out for in particular, ryan crocker, and patterson and Chris Stevens. How significant officers these days folks work with our military and intelligence communities in such countries of afghanistan, iraq, serious, pakistan and libya to combat terrorism and manage the challenging situations. At a time when the u. S. Diplomatic corps is being downsized and disparaged, pauls book is a reminder of the vital contributions made by some of the state departments finest, the risks they sometimes had to take