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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 some ....
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 pla ....
He is the chief officer building capabilities for the military and department of homeland security. We can talk about that as we go through the interview. Thank you for being with us today. Just to start, what led you to do this book . I know you have been thinking about these issues for a while and it is something you have encountered a lot on the Armed Services committee and senator mccains policy advisor, but what was the genesis that led to you sitting down and writing the entire book . Great question. I ask myself that constantly. Why did we get into this every day i was working on it . Basically two things. Both of these were a product of many years i looked at these issues, just thinking about this on a daytoday basis but the first was the growing realization that we had a fundamental problem i felt was underappreciated that people didnt appreciate that we were losing competitive advantage, we werent where we needed to be f ....
Brose is a former staff director for the Armed ServicesCommittee Prior to that is a senior policy advisor for senator john mccain and previously held other positions in the government. Right now he is the chief Strategy Officer build capability for the military and the department of Homeland Security i believe. We can talk about that as we go to the interview. But welcome chris thank you so much for being with us today. Thank you brian its great to be here. To start off with what led you to do this book. And ive been thinking about these issues for a while at something youve encountered a lot several years on the Armed Services committee and. [inaudible] guest i would say it basically was two things. Bot ....
Just released. Hes a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services committee and prior to that he was advisor for john mccain and previously held other positions in the government. Right now he is the chief Strategy Officer that builds capabilities for the military as well as the department of Homeland Security and we can talk about that as we go through the interview thank you very much for being with us today. Its great to be here. So just to start off with what led you to do this book . Youve been thinking about these issues for a while and obviously this is something youve encountered a lot during your several years on the Armed Services committee and with senator mccain as a policy advisor what was the genesis that led to you sitting down and ....