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Among the witness, a former Defense Department official from the Obama Administration and a retired air force general who led the u. S. Strategic command. This Senate ForeignRelations Committee hearing is just under two hours. The hearing itself will actually come to order. We thank general kehler, dr. Feaver, mr. Mckeon for joining us today and for sitting through the business meeting over the last 15 minutes. A number of members on both sides of the aisle of this on and off the committee have raised questions about the executives authorities with respect to war making. And the use of Nuclear Weapons and from a diplomatic perspective entering into and terminating agreements with other countrie ....
Good morning. Im mark moore, director for the center of military and diplomatic history here csis. We are delighted to host sir Lawrence Freedman this morning. I see some familiar faces as host of new ones which is great. As most of you in this got i think understand well, the idea of forcing the future in principle holds great appeal, so much of what we do in washington in terms of allocating resources, developing capabilities and dividing strategies is based upon our expectations of the military environment of the future. The trouble of course is that prediction is difficult. Some would even say impossible. Of course in reading this trip the book i was reminded of a saint by a chinese philosopher that those of knowledge did not predict, and those who predict did not have knowledge. Philip tadlock, the author of the bestselling book super forecasting contested active prediction is not impossible, at least in the shortterm, but ....
Then as 2017 comes to a close, were looking back at President Trumps first year in office, from his tweets to his accomplishments and everything in between. And later, willie takes a look back at the year in sunday sitdowns from actors to singers, entrepreneurs even a president. We have a lot of people from both sides of the aisle who dig this show. They all think were making fun of the other guy. Its nice to be the guy known for making songs that people kiss to or dance to. Music should make you fall in love and make you happy. When i talk about freedom of the press or immigration reform, i dont do so to criticize anybody. Those sunday sitdowns just ahead. But lets start this morning with our top story as we get sed to ring in the new year. Security will be tight across the country, but perhaps the biggest challenge will be beating the bitter temperatures gripping much of the nation. Nbcs ann thompson is in times square for us w ....
[inaudible conversations] the microphone is right on you. You have two of them theyll be both here. But theyre not on. Just went on right now. [laughter] all right ladies and gentlemen how are we tonight in so welcome to the American Writers Museum i would like to get everybodys attentions as we have a special guest with us tonight. The American Writers Museum is where we celebrate the impact that writers have had on American History and our culture and our daily life now on our wall and exhibit heres here at m fiction and spirituality and politics, and it is not a hyperbole to say that many of them wrote words that changed the course of history. From Thomas Jefferson declaring independence to wells demanding accountability americans writers ha ....
Guidance prior to now the unveiling of its budget request. We are thrilled to have decent beginning our discussion today. He has one of the longer titles but one of the more important titles, Principal Deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, a job that jim miller also had and we will talk about in the table that follows, but for now i want to introduce david who has been one of the most important authors and voices on the conceptualization and training in the writing of the document that we now have available in all of you can access as you are aware on the internet. It is about a 70 page document much longer than the unclassified version and has a lot of elaboration you are going tyouregoing to hear about that. David will give some short remarks and then we will swap out a little before the 11 00 mark for the Panel Discussion than i will moderate and introduce the p ....