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[inaudible discussion] good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our lewis layman auditorium. We join white house join us on the heritage. Org web site and those chinaing us on cspan booktv in the future. Those here inhouse we ask that courtty heck that our mobile devices of various sort have been silenced or turned off. Those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or commentses at any time. Simply email us as speaker heritage. Org and we will post the program on the heritage home page for your future reference as well. Welcoming our guests today and leading our program is dakotawoods, Senior Research fellow for defense programs and our center for national seps defense, mr. Wood served our nation for two deck theyd u. S. Marine concerned, including strategic analyst for the commandants of the marine corps and the office of the offers of net assessment. Upon retirement he helped organize the National Biosurveillance integration statement at the department of homel
Animating today. Host what is the focus of one one world . S. Cosell, similar to the books i published across my career, books focus on social justice issues. Really there is fiction and nonfiction and how fast i understand the path in different ways and blaze trails back into the past. We understand our history more and crises better through storytelling and also help us imagine new futures. It is a book about i think the most essential conversations we are having today in new ways of thinking. New approaches from perspectives that are outside of what we consider to be the mainstream. Whether thats people coming from different, you know, racial and national backgrounds, what other are people of political ideas outside of the mainstream. I use the term mainstream loosely. I really mean people who are outside of the mainstream and probably in the center of american life. Host what are some of the books he published in the past that fix that . I published between the world in me came out
Good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our lewis letterman auditorium. We, of course, welcome those for joining us on cspan. We would ask a going here in house if youll be so kind to check that cell phones are turned off as we prepare to begin. And, of course, the program will be hosted on the heritage homepage following todays presentation for your future reference as well, and our internet yours are always welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our discussion today on behalf of heritage is diem nguyen salmon, our senior policy analyst for defense budgeting. She is in or douglas and Sarah Allison center for arent a national steve ells riches my with both u. S. Defense platforms, Government Contracting practices, and brings her expertise to matters of defense hardware investment. Before joining heritage she worked at the washington, d. C. Headquarters, and later became the manager of analytics, Global Defense spending data s
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