hosted by the air force association and the national defense industrial association .his is an hour. >> i want to welcome our friends best --the next -- i want to welcome our friends from c-span that are here this morning. my name is peter. on behalf of the air force association, the national defense industrial association and reserve officers association of america, i want to thank you all and welcome our sponsers and friends from the israeli embassy and i want to thank two of our former missile-defense information group. colleagues and friends allison and john. i thank them for being here today as well. and i also say hello to the head of our government affairs program at the air force association that is joining us today. uzi rubin is the father of missile defense in israel. he was head of the missile-defense organization in israel and father of the aero program. he speaks around the world about missile developments in the middle east and the threats to the united states and our allies, in particular israel, as well as being a missile defense expert. one of our dear

the reserve officer's association, the air force association and hosted this hour-long event. >> i want welcome you all here to this. our next brisk in our seminar series on nuclear deterritoriant and missile defense. i want to wouk our friends from c-span that are here this morning. on behalf of the air force association, the national defense industrial association and the reserve officers association of america i want to thank you all and welcome our sponsors, especially our friends from the israeli embassy. i also want to thank two of on my former missile defense organizations groups, allison and john formerly with lockheed markin. and ips to also say hello to the head of our government enforcement at the organization, as well. uzi was head of the missile defense office in israel and father of the arrow program. he speaks around the world on missile developments in the middle east and both the united states and our allies from israel as well as being a missile defense expert and bum of our dear friends and colleagues that come all the way from israel to be with us here today. uzi, i

the air force association, the national defense industrial association, and the reserve officers association hosted this hour-long event. >> i want to welcome our friends from c-span that are here this morning. my name is peter. on behalf of the air force association, the national defense industrial association and reserve officers association of america i want to thank you , all and welcome our sponsers and friends from the israeli embassy and i want to thank two of our former missile-defense information group. allison and john. i thank them for being here today as well. and i also it to say hello to the head of our government affairs program that is joining us today. uzi rubin is the father of missile defense in israel. he was head of the missile-defense organization in israel and father of the aero program. he speaks around the world about missile developments in the middle east and the threats to the united states and our allies, in particular israel, as well as being a missile defense expert. on our dear friends and colleagues that came from israel. uzi, we want to welcome you here on b

and i want to say hello to the heffed of our government affairs program at the air force association that is joining us here today. uzi is in many people's minds the father of missile defense in israel. he was head of the missile defense organization office in israel. he speaks around the world on missile developments in the middle east and their threats to both the united states and our alleys, in particular israel, as well as being a missile defense expert and one of our dear friends and colleagues coming all the way from israel to be with us today. please give a warm welcome to uzi. [applause] >> thank you peter. it is a privilege and pleasure to be in this great venue. i try to be here once a year to update you people about the recent things and the threat and missile defense in the middle east. this time i chose to update you on the spread of missile in ivan other warring radical militias. they are now too numerable to name. the main point is integrated space and missile program. i will try to show you two programs are not parallel. they are actually the same program. finally a f

on behalf of the air force association, the national defense industrial association i want to thank you all and welcome our sponsers and our friends from the israeli embassy. i want to thank two of our former missile-defense information group. both formally from lockheed martin. i want to also say hello to the head of our government affairs program that is joining us today. uzi rubin is the father of missile defense in israel. he was head of the missile-defense organization in israel and father of the aero program. he's the surround the world about missile developments in the middle east and the threats to the united states and our allies, in particular israel, as well as being a missile defense expert. on our dear friends and colleagues that came from israel. uzi, we want to welcome you here today. will you all give a warm welcome to uzi rubin. [applause] mr. rubin: thank you peter. it is always a privilege to be here. i try to be here about once a year to talk about recent things and threats and the missile defense in the middle east. this time i chose to update you i try to be here a

about access it the guard, and one thing we saw was a program with the air force that is called toting force enterprise active associates unit. it is total force so in new hampshire we had an active doubt duty association between the air force and guard that has been really effective. i wanted to see if you would partner together and have this because the air force had good success and recognizes as you indicated today we would not have been able to fight the war in iraq and afghanistan without the guard and reserve and doing training and work together >> i am look into this and the abram document served well and we will implement that. >> i appreciate that. the program has been successful. how important is affective air missile defense to air operations? one thing that has been brought to my attention as we have the patriot and 13 allies rely on that but some of the allies have more modern versions of the patriot our troops have. i don't agree with that. i think the committee in the defense authorization, the army requested $106 million for patriot improvements to upgrade and that was actually accepted by this committe

the pentagon he worked for northrop grumman it is a graduate of u.s. air force academy said holders of master's 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 intellectual biography. >> over the years i came to appreciate that that assessment does the analytic framework is so that the archetype of the cold war we both became persuaded in the post cold war put the work in the office is not the front-page of "the washington post" those in the pentagon have very little from that assessment. so they will continue to use the tool we thought it was important to write this book to a wider audience. >> there is not a lot known we got the story needed to be told rethought and the marshall had a remarkable great level of influence how defense officials came to think about of military competition have waited tears think about that

actually actively partnering certain units together to have these active duty associations, because i think this model the air force has had some good success with it and recognizes, as well as you've already indicated today we would not have been able to firt the fight the wars in iraq or afghanistan without the guard and reserve and being able to do training and work together with certain units i think makes some sense. so i wanted to get your thought on that and if that's something that you would look at as a possibility. >> it is, senator are. in fact i met with your tag from new hampshire along with the other tags east of mississippi.are. in fact i met with your tag from new hampshire along with the other tags east of mississippi.re. in fact i met with your tag from new hampshire along with the other tags east of mississippi.e. in fact i met with your tag from new hampshire along with the other tags east of mississippi.. in fact i met with your tag from new hampshire along with the other tags east of mississippi. they brought that up. so i'll see where it applies to the army, if that air force model can apply

the punishing air strikes were possible because of the effectiveness of kurdish forces. >> we validate those targets, including validating that there won't be damage to innocent civilians associatedith the strike, and then we take the strike. >> reporter: the president again acknowledged there had been battlefield sethbacks, the defeat of isil which he called a nimble and tune titsic foe would be neither easy nor quick, and the criticism on capitol hill was as strong as ever. hours before the president's pentagon remarks, house armed services committee chairman said: >> reporter: but the u.s. central command says over the past two months isil has given up almost 2,000 square miles of territory in syria, including last month's loss of a key border town to kurdish fighters. one of the sharpest critics john mccain dismissed the president's defense of his strategy as self dilutional. he said nothing shows that the u.s. is on the path to success in dpeeting isil in iraq and syria. and senator mccain can put that criticism directly to secretary carter and general dempsey tomorrow. both are scheduled to appear before his senate armed services committee to testify about the strategy. del

the ash cloud associated with this volcanic eruption was sent about 4 to 6 kilometers up into the air. the wind drifted that ash cloud into the nearby well-. lated tourist destination of bali. that forced cancellation of several different flights and the closure of four different airports including the the airport in the southern portions of bali. okay, here is perspective. east java. this is indonesia. this is just to the north. now what we have done is located with satellite imagery the actual volcano, when it erupted. you notice the darker shading on this map. that's actually the volcanic ash getting picked up by upper level wind. we identified it here with the red lien. notice how it drifts east ward across bali. this is why they closed that airport down. because volcanic ash and jetliners do not mix well. we have reported on this several tims. unfortunately it doesn't look like wind will ease up much. we can see a change in the direction that will allow perhaps for the, well airports to reopen. i will switch gears. we've got so much to talk about including four named tropical typhoons across the spirveg. six storms in total. take a look at what downtown hong kong looks like at the

the punishing air strikes were possible because of the effectiveness of kurdish forces who have been able to in carter's words nominate targets. >> we are validate those targets, including validating that there won't be damage to innocent civilians associatedith the strike and then we take the strike. >> reporter: the president again acknowledged there had been battlefield setbacks the defeat of isil would be neither easy nor quick. and the criticism from the political opposition on capitol hill was as strong as ever. hours before house armed service committee chairman released a statement saying: but the u.s. central commands says over the past two months isil has given up almost 2,000 square miles of territory in syria, including the loss of a key border town to kurdish fighters. president obama argues that while isil has scored some tactical victories, including capturing ramadi in iraq he says it has some real strategic weaknesses. it is surrounded by countries that have vowed to destroy it. it has no air force and no allies. but one of the administration's sharpist critics john mccain says nothing the president has said shows that the u.s. is on a path to success in iraq and syria, and he'll be able to level that criticism tomorrow. >