Tonights discussion is about Andrew Marshall cruz served through nixon through obama he just retired the age of 94 former undersecretary of defense was called the hidden a and behind the policy. But what is significant is nixon tapped him to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries with the soviet union. But his former aides and was a was planning graduate them with strategic of budgetary assessments has a great body of scholarly work them prior with the evaluation at the pentagon he worked for Northrop Grumman it is a graduate of u. S. Air force academy said holders of masters and university of pittsburgh. The Fletcher Jones associate professor and he holds an mba and a ph. D. From princeton university. Ladies and gentlemen, Andrew Krepinevich and barry watts. [applause] thanks to the Nixon Library for having me here. But there is the small group of washington d. C. Foreign policy types along the fringes of this group with a Foreign Affairs to recall the inte
Tonights discussion is about Andrew Marshall cruz served through nixon through obama he just retired the age of 94 former undersecretary of defense was called the hidden a and behind the policy. But what is significant is nixon tapped him to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries with the soviet union. But his former aides and was a was planning graduate them with strategic of budgetary assessments has a great body of scholarly work them prior with the evaluation at the pentagon he worked for Northrop Grumman it is a graduate of u. S. Air force academy said holders of masters and university of pittsburgh. The Fletcher Jones associate professor and he holds an mba and a ph. D. From princeton university. Ladies and gentlemen, Andrew Krepinevich and barry watts. [applause] thanks to the Nixon Library for having me here. But there is the small group of washington d. C. Foreign policy types along the fringes of this group with a Foreign Affairs to recall the inte
Andrew krepinevich and barry watts talk about their book at the pentagons office and the pentagons think tank from 1973 to 2015. The coauthors are former members of marshalls staff. This event was held at the nixon president ial library and museum in yorba linda california. [applause] tonights discussion is that Andrew Marshall who served from nixon to obama. He retired january at the ripe age of 93 years old. For his pioneering work called the hidden hand before and behind American Foreign policy. His two former aides, let me back up for a second. What is significant is nixon tapped marshall to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries at the time namely the soviet union to the concept is called net assessment. His former aides Andrew Krepinevich and sub diver here to discuss the achievements of their mentor tonight and sign copies of their biography about him called the lost warrior Andrew Marshall and shaping of modern defense strategy. Mr. Krepinevichs it i
Management because these are the most dangerous machines ever built. And i think the subject has fallen off their radar quite a bit since the end of the cold war. Host lets talk about the story. You are telling a story about the ground up. You chose the whistle explosion. Why that particular explosion rather than any other incidents you like in the book lacks guest my interest i spent time in the 04 writing my book for the resignation and one of the officers told me the story of the accident. He had been in the Missile Launch crew and i thought of an extraordinary story. I had never heard of it. I could not believe what happened. And the more i learned about it, the more it seemed like it was a very good way to look at these much larger themes about the Nuclear Weapons about our strategy for using them and the management of them. It is a story that is a seemingly trivial event someone drops the toole that leads to a potential catastrophe. The dropping of the tool damages the Interconti
Im not going to give away all of this stuff, but the most consequential question is what happens with vietnam and civil rights. And what about the 22nd approach is . They can be a huge debate. The conservatives will tell you that he ran as a hawk and he often said that we are not going to leave vietnam than we would have the same advisers as Lyndon Johnson. The army couldnt get the troops there kennedy was on the phony, are the troops . Theyre on the way. So you have that. And in an effort to kind of bring reality some fantasy together, i construct a meeting in which most of the participants speak the words they actually spoke at one time. I just put it somewhere else. Theres a man, an unsung hero of vietnam, civil serviceman named paul, head of the vietnam working group, and in a meeting with the other big shots had the temerity from the back to say, maybe we shouldnt be there . And a couple weeks later they got rid of him. Now, kennedy was one guy what wanted as much information as p