on note, i will say thank you to everyone for coming out tonight, braving the heat again, braving naito summit. i don't know. i didn't hear the flyover, so i don't know if it happened or not. but again, thank you to charles kennedy school alumni for putting this together and appreciate it. yeah. and so i do copies. they will happily book festivals and more. anytime only the book tv to work. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ the bus connections are always there.

it was arranged that dated back to when the soviets were in afghanistan and naito had been using since then. it wasn't all that well marked or, fenced off. so these people who mainly made their living livestock would graze in the area. and sometimes wander into the firing range and step on, pick up things that were still live. so i'm in this living room of this house and there's basically nothing but carpet on the floor and some floor pillows. and i'm talking to the father of this family who's his leg below his knee. so he's telling me about how one night in the dark he's grazing sheep, steps on something that explodes. now, next thing he knows, he's getting care. and his lost part of his leg and there across the room, his son, who i believe was around 17 years old, hadn't had no arms below his and explained that one time he was out in the area picking up scrap metal to try to sell to get some spare change food. he picks something turned out to be a grenade it went off. so i'm sitting in this living with this family hearing this. i mean just about as horrible a story as you can imagine

if you can naito is the other here and it's very important right now i salute here 51% americans wantingto quit the white people. if our could be if we can stay something as an american to i would say please keep on the value is the value that we share that the american values that you went to vietnam and you know to support your friend to win right against bush. but i also must come and bring back something, because what you said about usaid, i think that's very important i know that many americans now saying that you need that support and you what countries and the are the countries in peace. but i appreciate all the ones that usaid had gone to vietnam and to countries, you know, and for example, thank you very much. i believe that that the values that, american values right now is important. and as our life and my brothers here, we see, we came here for the values. so we hope the lessons would be in vietnam. before and that the dispassionate president said there was a number of children that was exactly to be with and you doing, judy lbj johnson was actually the leader based on who ch

it makes him dangerous to the united states and naito and he is presented by launching an aggressive war against ukraine, the largest land war on the continent of europe since the second world war. 15 million, approximately 50 million ukrainians killed, wounded, internally displaced or fled their country as refugees pretty signify arrogant problem for the world, for the globe, for the united states, for nato's. so yeah, russia's really important. you know, for many observers of russia, nothing more encapsulates churchill is, quote, about russia being a mystery than how its government works. you know, the book you talk about how russia works and how you have the constitutional structures, but then you have these informal group of people who actually run the country. you discuss that a little bit about how russia's actually governed. so the theme to understand and this it's it's it's an insight i learned about putin putin purports to be a lawyer has a law degree. what he does he always has a legal justification. he can point to a law to justify whatever he's he's done. and he has amend

introduction to geopolitics and how things work have lots of meetings with leaders of foreign countries naito activities and and asia-pacific are in the pacific these days so that was i think that was a good part of my education and then i was vice chairman for a while and the was kind enough to include me in all the important things that were going on. so i was, i was as well prepared as i could have been to to take the oath of office in on october. there's a lot of talk today about role of of military leadership and times like and decisions that need to be made on military operations or whatever. could you tell us what the role is of the chairman of the joint of staff? well, you're sort of the you've got one foot in the military and another foot in the civilian, where you're the one that translates in many cases between between the two. the two worlds. but you're not political. and that's a fundamental thing. i think everybody in this room that's interested in the military is wearing any kind of cadet uniform. your military is nonpartisan. and it's a really important tenet of our of our ser

and he thought well naito perhaps need it if nothing else is going to work and perhaps naito is going to work. and so he made proposal to a baker when baker met in may 1990 and he made it repeatedly. we can see from the record of conversation, baker of i won't say ignored it, but didn't really say anything to it, which is very interesting. now i did not have not considered the american records in great detail and i wonder what the american reaction to this was. but clearly from the soviet perspective, it was an important thing because they wanted to have a role to play as partners of the united states, even though gorbachev realized like no one else that he was the cold war, but he was trying to spin story and says, no, no, no, we're not losing the cold war. it's the cold war that is losing. but we are victors together, the united states will stand together maybe in later. we have a lot of scholars in the room here in our lives studio audience who've written about the cold war and and international relations. we also have a substantial zoom audience who who are submitting and i'm seei

people this, two years ago now, she posted on x , that war could have been prevented if biden and naito acknowledged russia was, quote, legitimate security concerns, unquote, about ukraine joining the group. how will the intel community view those statements? >> it's not just that but she also tweeted about the bio lab surrounding ukraine, which is propaganda that started in moscow . right? so, this is someone who at least before she was buying into conspiracy theory theories and propaganda. >> does russia like this appointment? >> i would let russia speak for itself but it seems like throughout her last five or six years, there has been a real interest you can see among state media outlets, when she was running for president in 2019, there were articles about her candidacy. not a lot of people were paying attention to her candidacy but rt, the russia tv station and others were, i remember asking her campaign about it at the time, saying i don't know what this is, i don't know why they are interested in us, but clearly, russia sees something in tulsa gabbard that they find interesting.

many of our allies are cold war allies or people that we just after the cold war, when we expanded naito and other other things, allies are critical. you know, for us in so many different ways. yes. sometimes it costs us money. yes. sometimes end up we end up doing things we might not necessarily want to do. but when you look at our allies, most them bring or have the potential bring far more to the table than they could ever cost us. when you think of the the technological and the wealth of europe, for example, or japan, south korea, i mean, these are all potent. i mean, even now, like the south korean armed are, you know, larger than some of the others. but the technology there, the scientific capacity, all of this is amazing. the gdp. yes, i know the same argument always had. they need to spend more on their defense so we don't have to take up so much of the slack but the potential is there you know in vastly different ways you add the gdp numbers for, america and its allies versus versus china and, its allies. there's a staggering difference, john could actually probably give you the

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many of our allies are cold war allies or people that we just after the cold war, when we expanded naito and other other things, allies are critical. you know, for us in so many different ways. yes. sometimes it costs us money. yes. sometimes end up we end up doing things we might not necessarily want to do. but when you look at our allies, most them bring or have the potential bring far more to the table than they could ever cost us. when you think of the the technological and the wealth of europe, for example, or japan, south korea, i mean, these are all potent. i mean, even now, like the south korean armed are, you know, larger than some of the others. but the technology there, the scientific capacity, all of this is amazing. the gdp. yes, i know the same argument always had. they need to spend more on their defense so we don't have to take up so much of the slack but the potential is there you know in vastly different ways you add the gdp numbers for, america and its allies versus versus china and, its allies. there's a staggering difference, john could actually probably give you the

oh, we have a i had during the obama we had the naito summit in chicago right on the heels of the g8 which he was holding a camp david. i went back and forth almost nightly on a plane, back and forth between the two cities and then having to take the drive up to camp david, do the arrangement. i tend to arrangements there then make my way back to chicago. so joe is absolutely right. we at the we are we are sort of prisoners to the schedule that has been handed to us. i want to get two questions from the audience, but i do that trip to saudi arabia. president took was a statement. i had been to saudi arabia many times with other people, but landing on air force one and having the king come out and greet him on the tarmac was a step yeah, it's pretty it was so incredibly over the top. the welcoming of him to saudi arabia. it was such a statement. how much anxiety you have about that visit. actually, not that much, you know. well, i mean the saudis are very good at that. the pomp and circumstance. oh, yeah. and, you know, the you don't really have much of a security concern. and everyth

very pro naito, very pro standing up to russia. and it would be inconceivable to me that ronald reagan today be criticizing u.s.a, ukraine, for example, whatever else. i don't know what else he would think, but i'm sure he would be in favor of resisting russian imperial. we have two more minutes. so just let's have these questions be fairly quick. okay thank mr. booth. there is such enormity of data you needed to this book. all the people to date. just can you tell us a little bit about how you did it? did you write research first and then write or write and researched? you have 30 costco tables full data and papers, or was it all did you write every day? did you have office or did you write at home? i'm assuming for me, yeah. yeah. i mean, i my my was i began with oral history interviews. i was very cognizant that a lot of the people i needed to talk to might not be around forever. in fact, quite a few of them are no longer around. folks like george schultz or colin powell or many others who were very instrumental in reagan's and