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And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
Host a conversation on military readiness and the threat we face. Od, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing military strength is a major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Gather all Public Information we can come across. Thecial testimonies from pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs. General news reporting from the community and our personal contacts in the services and pentagon. We gather all that all year long, go through analysis and writing processes, prepare last years information and this years and then issue a report card on the military. This year on a scale of one to five we would give it a marginal. We feel the u. S. Military at large is marginally able to meet the demands of National Security requirements. Meaning they can handle one major conflict in one part of the world, but not much more than that. We think it needs to be more than that because the u. S. Has global interests and responsibilities. Host the u. S. Military
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Historic pad 39a with four astronauts. Americans mike hopkins, victor glover, shannon walker, and japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. We have a great group of people to talk about the crew 1 mission in this postlaunch press conference and talk about the many historic elements of this historic launch. Joining us today is nasa administrator jim bridenside, kathy leader, nasa headquarters, Vice President and director general of jaxas human space Flight Technology directorat. Steve dixson, administrator of the f. A. A. , and gwenn, president and chief operating officer of spacex. In the moment well hear the opening remarks. And then well take questions from the media. So lets start with administrator jim bridenstein. Thank you. Another historic night. And i want to congratulate the nasa team and the spacex team for an amazing job yet again. So the big milestone here is that we are now moving away from development and tests and into operational flights. And in fact, this operational flight w