Book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft. He earned his ph. D. And dissertation of culture and technology in the u. S. Air force 1964 to 1991. Ladiies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming dr. Michael hankins. All right. I will try to not keep you from the reception and ill be quick. I did want to start off by talking about something that happened about a year ago last june in 2017. There was an air force f15 flying over syria. This is not what you expected to hear in a world war i lecture, but stay with me. An f15 is flying over syria and shoots down an iranian drone, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or uav. About two weeks, not quite two weeks later a second almost identical event happened, another f15 shot down another iranian drone, and i dont know about you, but my twitter exploded. People started talking online, blogs are being written, people are arguing. And what theyre arguing about is does shooting down th
Dynamics on the middle east and its important to recognize that everything here is on the record. Before we begin id like to highlight the Atlantic Councils collaboration with ifpi, which is the Italian Institute for International Political studies. This is the second year that our two organizations have partners produced an outstanding work on the changing landscape in the middle east. Today we are pleased to release our new collected volume, the mino region, and its now available for download online. A special thanks goes out to the president of ifpi, ambassador monsolo for his continuous collaboration in our joint ventures and indebted to the Italian Foreign ministry, in particular to the italian ambassador for his unwavering drive to see our two institutions partnering for not only the two countries they represent, but for the entire community. Ambassador monsolo couldnt be here at the last minute, but asked me to read this note. Its great regret i address you all in writing when i
Aerial vehicles in military Service Worldwide today and while were on the subject of technological terrors that we vastly underestimate and their negative impacts on our lives sovereignty and well being lets talk about the westmoreland family of milwaukee wisconsin who came home one quiet september afternoon to find their smart home was hacked fox 6 news reports that their thermostat had been turned all the way up to 90 degrees a voice speak again speaking to them from a camera in the kitchen and then started playing vulgar music. In the 21st century you dont need ghosts to haunt your house just these 2 folks from the ninetys now lets go to the show and start watching the hawks. To. Get the. Real deal with. The bottom. Like you know that i got. This week. With. The one watching the hawks i am i wrong or right today we put dialogue over the fate of the walls myself bring you 2 distinct and informative discussions between a variety of topics and guests with unique political viewpoints st
Ok thats it for us for now were expecting the Russian Foreign minister to take to the podium of the u. N. General assembly in the next half an hour or so and well be right back to bring you that live meantime its putting the hoax in a few moments. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. 3 days of salutations while the impeachment horns are blaring all over your cable news feeds and pedantic punditry this week or watchers its important to remember there was more going on in this world than just us President Donald Trump versus nancy pelosi out im sure if joe biden than reality. That there is more news out there than whats allowed on jake tappers teleprompter every night news that is important thought provoking and even scarier in other words news that affects you in the rest of us just as much as political impeachment games played by millionaires working for billionaires news li
Assistant secretary of state for middle Eastern Affairs discusses u. S. Middle east strategy and he talks about u. S. Relations in the region. Secretary of state, mike pompeos recent trip to italy and chinas expansion in the middle east. From earlier this week at the Atlantic Council in washington, its an hour and 50 minutes. Okay, everyone. Were ready to commence. Okay. We are joined with us here today to kick off the programming, a discussion of the u. S. Role in the middle east given all of the very exciting news that seems to happen every single day. We are here. David shanker, a good, old friend of mine will share with us his great and unmatched wisdom about the u. S. Policy in the region. Let me give you a little background on david. He was sworn in as the assistant secretary of state for near Eastern Affairs. June 14th of this year. Prior to joining the department of state, he was director of the program on arab politics at the Washington Institute for near east policy from 2000