separate sphere of national security, where to decompose the sources of threat, respectively, and , uh, to develop some kind of countermeasures . if we take the us national security strategy as an example, then it clearly defines america's nicknames china russia iran north korea world terrorism belarus, on the other hand, builds its own concept of national security, defending itself from threats to anyone, without threatening, the document contains a significant innovative potential, it can be said without exaggeration that this is a development concept, in which one of the fundamental principles of security through development is enshrined . content analysis of the content of the document showed that innovations in various iterations are mentioned about 20 times, the current edition of the concept enshrined one of the e, new principles . uh, this is the orientation of the concept towards development, so to speak, the lack of statics, that is, we assume that it is development that will be the necessary driver for, uh, improving the welfare of citizens republic of belarus develop. weird we also believe that e is a security development system. e will allow us, e, to single

in the foreign policy program center for security strategy and technology where she researches the use of the armed forces and international politics, u.s. national security strategy and military applications of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. melanie served in academia and in the private sector and in 2020 she published a book along with barry and james titled "military coercion in u.s. foreign policy: the use of force short of war." michael serves as the phillip h. knight chair in defense and strategy. as senior fellow and director of the center for security strategy and technology and as director of research for the foreign policy program. he teaches at columbia, georgetown and george washington universities and serves as a member of the pentagon's defense policy board. his most recent book of many "military history for the modern strategist" was published just this past january. before i begin i'd like to remind that you we're live streaming this event and we're on the record. our panelists will be taking questions from the audience toward the end of our conversation today. for those of you who are joining virtually, please

ambassador robert o'brien joins us, former national security advisor, american global strategies founder and chair. ambassador, great to have you. >> great to be with you, neil. thank you. neil: what do you make of this? in your day working in government, you've seen over your illustrious career, there have been stabs at this. find alternative to the dollar. we don't want the u.s. to lead the roost, coal everything, peg everything to that currency, have a rival one, no single country can rival it but coming up with ways they can get a marvel all-star team together to do it but what do you make of this because they're gaining traction? >> well we have to understand the chinese are competing with us across every spectrum. militarily, diplomatically, economically. this is part of their economic competition with us. the u.s. dollar being the reserve currency for the world is probably the second greatest source of other national power after our nuclear weapons stockpile and military f they can weaken us, not replace the dollar, that is a real problem because we use the dollar, a, to borrow at

national security. there is a doctrine of combating extremism, but terrorism. i think it is high time for us in the country to think about creating such a national one. strategies to counter russophobia, and this should be done literally at all levels . we will take up this matter. it will be honest detective. we are now talking to some diplomats. of course, we are upset that the embassy is being closed there in western countries, that people studied, worked for many years, and now they are returning to use everything here. and when the british empire was disintegrating after world war ii, churchill was thinking about how to keep the power of great britain and he had such a theory of three circles, when he believed, uh, that great britain would remain, uh, as if at the head of this movement in europe created such a system of three circles, i it seems the same system of three circles and our diplomat to our president started the system of one circle, so that if crimes of our citizens are committed on the territory of the russian federation. including ethnic russians by representatives of various strata, so that it would not be possible for the diaspora to jump u

national security. there is a doctrine of combating extremism, but terrorism. i think it is high time for us in the country to think about creating such a national strategy to counter

strategy of the current us administration became obvious to the whole world earlier during the shameful flight of americans from afghanistan the other day. the press secretary of the national security council, john kerby, was asked a question about the abandoned weapons worth $ 7 billion that the taliban got. however , he ingeniously evaded the answer, saying that the afghans were responsible for him and it was necessary to ask from them the visit of the president of france to the netherlands again went not according to plan , on the territory of the scientific campus of the university of amsterdam, where the macron arrived today to the french gost, two men tried to break through. however , in the best traditions of western democracy, they were knocked to the ground, twisted and taken away by the macron. at the same time, he did not even interrupt the conversation with a colleague. earlier, protesters disrupted macron's speech about the future of the eu at the nexus institute in the hague, that is, dozens of activists did not let him speak, shouted phrases where french democracy, the climate convention is not respected and you have millions of demonstrators. on the streets. they al

the administration is highlighted to us national security and in that strategy the indo pacific importances highlighted stating "no would be more significance to the world and every day americans than the indo pacific but yet diplomatic programs the east asia pacific affairs with the fourth-largest bureau so why is it the department says the indo pacific is the most important region treating and is the fourth most important quick. >> thank you. you are exactly right for us this is the most dynamic fastest growing region in the world 75 percent of economic growth in recent years trading partners and investment partners strategically are important but precisely because of that we has infuse the work we are doing across all of them up euros so we have expertise that they can work with colleagues in europe to make sure they are coordinated approaching the issues in the same way. >> what resources do you intend to use to vote to support human rights and stop being the genocide uyghur by the ccp that is an important area. >> i agree it is a central focus of diplomacy we put a spotlight on the ge

donald trump's national security council john bolton wrote a landmark article with a very high-profile title the us's new grand strategyoundation for the actual strategy of the united states during the cold war. and now, listen to some strategy offered by john bolton in order to defeat russia and china listen first, washington and its allies should immediately increase their defense budgets as a percentage of gdp to reagan-era levels and maintain that level for the foreseeable future. second, it is necessary to further improve and expand existing us collective defense alliances and create new ones to counter new threats. we must follow the proposal of josé maria aznar. make the north atlantic treaty organization global by inviting. in her japan australia israel and other countries that have reached nato's target level of defense spending. we must consider our middle eastern friends' concerns about us resolve and resolve both moscow and beijing's regional influence in line with washington's longstanding policy of urgency washington, with its european and asian allies, should provide much more military assistance to taiw

strategy driven budget and driven by the seriousness on strategic competition for the people's republic of china. the budget will help us intimate 2022 national defense strategy in the president's national security strategy. have three key priorities, defend our nation, take care of our people and succeed. our budget builds on our previous investments by increasing our edge. investing in a resilient indo-pacific and increasing scale and scope of exercises with our partners. 40% increase over last year's core deterrence initiative an all-time high of $9.1 billion and that will fund his posture better defenses for hawaii and deeper cooperation with allies and partners this is both r&d and procurement requesting $61 billion for air dominance and your honey providers and extraordinary strategic partner i helped unveil last december. we are seeking more than $48 billion including new construction of battleships boosting capacity in american shipyards are strategy demands. $1.2 billion in the submarine industrial basis providing summaries and one ballistic missile submarine and air missile defense investing in defenses to counter unmanned aerial vehicles and requesting $11 billion to deliver the mix o

national security space community, particularly the united states space command and a space for us considered new strategies, operational cons -- concepts and technologies. what this panel is do is provide insights regarding what sort of technological solutions might be the most helpful and how this ties back to core mission imperatives, especially in an era where our adversary is not just waiting, but they are accelerating their activities to compound the challenges that we have to face. i am tickled pink to have the folks we have on stage. to my left is dave rockefeller. i go back to -- way back with everybody. rock is that director of training operation. stationed in headquarters united states space for space in colorado. next to rock is ms. stacy kubicek, the vice president for mission solutions at lockheed martin. thank you stacy for joining us. you all are familiar with general chilton, inc. for him to joining us on this panel. to put everyone in perspective historically. everyone in this room, i do not see any youngsters here. it was not that long ago you cannot say space and offense in the same sent

this will help us national defense strategy from the national security strategy. three key priorities at the pentagon, defend our nation, take care of our outstanding people, succeed through teamwork. the prc is our challenge and we are driving hard to meet it. budget bills on the previous investment to deter aggression, and the force posture, increasing scale and scope of the exercises with our partners. in this budget, a 40% increase over last year's request with the specific deterrence. it is 9. one billion dollars, if that is the stronger posture, better defenses for hawaii and guam and deeper cooperation. and largest investments, we are requesting more than 60 one billion dollars to sustain air dominance. that includes funding for fighters and extraordinary be 21 strategic bomber i helped develop last september. and new construction of battleships and boosting capacity in america's shipyards to build ships the strategy demands. we are investing a total of $1.2 billion in the submarine industrial place, buying two virginia class attack submarines and one colum

joining us right now is michael allen, former member of the national security council, former special assistant to president george w. bush. he's also managing director of beacon global strategies great to have both of you here with us. let me start with you, ellison, and the latest reporting. what's happening there right now? >> reporter: ana, you played that sound of air raid sirens, it's something if you spent time in ukraine in the last year plus, you're very familiar with it. but as you said, it's something in a lot of cities people have not heard for quite a while. this is the largest missile attack russia has launched on the country in about two month thes. this is an area where there are just active, frantic efforts to try and find any survivors left behind in the rubble. this apartment building, this is where that missile hit this morning. you can still see some of the smoke billowing up from the basement. speaking with the spokesperson for the services and the search and rescue teams that are here on the ground, they say right now the plan is to stay hyperfocused on trying to clear out the basement and see if there are any survivors or if they need to recover any addi

use energy in different ways. with this kind of a challenge, that is exactly where an industrial strategy can be useful. this is a national securityssue, an axis of the ices, and we want to make the move to clean energy as swift as possible and work as well as it can for the american people, consumers, and workers. the way that we thought about it, the way the president plans have been executed, as we are trying to innovate and produce at scale and making sure we do not leave anyone behind to the best of our ability. thinking about questions of equity from the get-go, but making sure the policy is focusing on doing what it can to make sure of good ideas that we focus on a lot, that they get to commercial scale. and that this is a resilient supply chain. one of the things we know is with fossil fuels, opec controls over a third, about 40%, of the world's oil supply. you add in opec+, you get more than that. we know a core part of the clean energy supply chain -- china has a monopoly, controlled upwards of 90% of some core components. this is not a strategy for a resilient supply chain. what we make in the u.s. matters, how we make

strategy driven budget. one driven by the seriousness of our strategic competition with the peoples republic of china. this budget will help us to implement our 2022 national defense strategy, and the presidents national security strategy. i have three key priorities at the pentagon. defend our nation, take care of our outstanding people, and to succeed through teamwork. the prc's are pacing challenge. we are driving hard to meet it. our budget builds on our previous investments by increasing your engine encouraging -- a more resilient force posture in the end of pacific. increasing the scale and scope of our exercises with our partners. this budget includes a 40% increase over last years for the pacific deterrence initiative. an all-time high of 9.1 billion dollars. that will fund a stronger force posture, better defenses for over hawaii and guam. deeper cooperation with our allies and partners. now, this budget also makes the departments largest ever investments in both r&d and procurement. we are requesting more than 61 billion dollars to sustain our air dominance. that includes funding for fighters. and the extraordinary to be 21 strategic bomber that i helped unveil last december. we are also seeking more

in october of last year the biden administration announced its national security strategy which includes as most of usknow a three-part plan focused on outcompeting china. mr. chair, i would ask unanimous consent that that national strategy be entered into today's record. >> without objection. >> the first step of the plan was to invest in strengthening american competition. president biden delivered on that rolling out initiatives guided by the bipartisan chips and science act to strengthen american manufacturing and american supply chains. all, my gut, solidifying america's technological leadership on the global stage. the state department launched as we know the china house initiative which brings together china experts from throughout the state department and security officials to help the administration responsibly managed competition between the u.s. and china. the second step of the plan was to work with america's allies with common purpose and with a common sense. president biden delivered convening as we know the leaders of egypt, cambodia, indonesia, japan, south korea, the eu, italy, the uk

the strategy highlights these tools and services -- and the president told us countering this proliferation was a fundamental national security and foreign policy interest. to start with you, where does spyware fit into doj's disruption activities? how will the departmental approach to spyware change in response to the strategy? >> i think there are a couple ways we interact with spyware. on the law enforcement level. one is just by going after criminals who miss you spyware to target individuals and companies in nation states and break the law by using it to invade privacy, using it to steal pii to commit different forms of identity theft or cybercrime. that is one area we interact with. the other area is ensuring we as a law enforcement community and intelligence community which doj is also part live up to the a sick and suppose of the country and our commitment to ensuring we are not buying or licensing spyware products that cut against our values. that are used either by adversaries to engage in illegal or other kinds of activities that would run against our core principles or used in ways that actually cause a national s

national and economic security demand and alternative unrestrained us aid for ukraine must come to an end. and we will adamantly oppose all future aid packages unless they are linked to a clear diplomatic strategy designed to bring this war to a rapid conclusion. we spoke with respect, says, democratic candidate for governor of kentucky, jeff young, who says that when it comes to corruption key that i'm washington out there, faithful. or i'd say that it crane is probably the most corrupt country in the world right now. and the united states is not far behind. there are totally corrupt tier. most are political parties routinely rigged their own primaries, that's corruption, ignores the will of the people. and our judicial branch routinely dismisses civil actions that were meritorious. that's one of the worst things when judge can do. we have corruption at every level of our government here in the united states and in kentucky. and it's mostly concentrated at the top. a former governor of kentucky, shan fish raj from the head. and at this point, the united states, mainly washington, but also in every state, is a rotting fish ah, some fine as he is now. moscow sent to trade with beijing exclusivel

national and economic security demand and alternative unrestrained us aid for ukraine must come to an end. and we will adamantly oppose all future aid packages unless they are linked to a clear diplomatic strategy designed to bring this war to a rapid conclusion. international consultant and analysts url rozmini's unsafe thou washington lux, fiscal restraint when it comes to shipping funds to ukraine on u. s. citizens are becoming increasingly that all you know, if you hear the rhetoric coming out of the department in the white house, it's like, it's a bottomless. yeah. we are already paid for the government, civil servants. i think we're paying military salaries as well. i mean, we're paying pension, i mean we, we cover, we're covering stuff for ukrainian that we don't cover for our own citizens. we've got so many problems here that drug flowing across the border. we've got accidents happening. we've just had another explosion of been today. that was horrible, other chemical type to disclose and you've got to, you know, how i got issues in our schools. you know, people are fed up, they are fed up and at some point it will back where in the but right now we've got a state where we've got a poli

national and economic security demand and alternative unrestrained us aid for ukraine must come to an end. and we will adamantly oppose all future aid packages unless they are linked to a clear diplomatic strategy designed to bring this war to a rapid conclusion. to go further in depth on this one cross live now to jeffrey and young, a democratic candidate for the governor of kentucky jeffrey, it's great to have you on the program today. now we have this joint letter from us lawmakers, logging their concerns about the level of us support for ukraine. it's not the 1st time we've heard such complaints, but do you think their voices are getting louder? i do it's, this letter is not particularly radical, but it's basically good common sense. and it's long overdue. right. and now when it comes to, you know, you mentioned as long overdue. we've just talked about how much money the u. s. congress has approved for ukraine just in one year comparing it to 20 years. and i can't stand. so do you think that there are limits to the level of u. s. a ukraine or is this just feeling like a bottomless pit? still, at this point, it seems like a bottomless pit, but there are real limits based on what's going on i

security by seeking to shake the future. rather than waiting for the future to shape us. china is named as a main threat and the endo pacific region and the new australian national defense strategy. the report claims that beijing is building up its military capability without transparency engaging in an arms race with australia. chinese australian relations spiraled after canberra london, and washington signed the august military treaty and 2021. in march this year, the u. s. and u. k. agree to help australia acquire nuclear powered, some marines asap, strongly, criticized by china. let's discuss a topic with director of the center for counter had demonic studies. tem anderson, welcome tam, do you think australia's decision to acquire long range missiles is justified by or real security threats or what's the actual reason behind this? no, it's not a real security threat to australia, but it is a, a response to the the concern that the united states of america has to losing its position in the world. and of course, it's the range of rewards that the u. s. is initiated and provoke from around the world to die and really, estrada has, has long had this sort of skin sort of approach

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using its own neutral position, it is now getting the maximum from relations with the west and relations with the russians, but at the same time, we also, if we analyze the key documents of the national security strategy of india until the 30th year and the chinese they have several regions that have the potential for direct conflict let's say the eastern coast of the indian ocean, that is, let's say the northern borders of india, that is, the same himalayan provinces where they are still directly at odds with the chinese, that is, so far , there is simply no real potential for an alliance between new delhi and beijing, their interests are too much, no, but at the same time, india is not ready to direct confrontation. therefore, for the time being, she will clearly play her own party and will not join this axis of autocrats. thank you. yes , oleksandr, here our viewer is asking that we have already finished with europe, but still move to bulgaria. what do you want? what can you say about the bulgarian elections five and two years from now, what kind of extraordinary events are taking place in the context of ukraine , what can this also mean for us? well, my comment here will be short, let's remember w

national and economic security demand and alternative unrestrained us aid for ukraine must come to an end. and we will adamantly oppose all future aid packages unless they are linked to a clear diplomatic strategy designed to bring this war to a rapid conclusion. to go further in depth on this cross. i have now to international consultant, earl rasmussen, earl, it's good to see you now we have this joint letter from us lawmakers flagging their concerns about the level of us support for ukraine. now it's not the 1st time we've heard such complaints, but are these voices getting louder? i think i think the voices are getting louder. will they make an impact? i'm not sure on that. it seems like we look at the boat just at the recent boat to have a separate a special i g for or ukraine. it was overwhelming. he rejected, i think it was freed up to 30 something. so it's got an issue on both parties, but at least we've got the republican voices that are starting to get more or turn out there and more echoing and be being heard a little bit. will that be enough? i'm not sure. but then what happens on the public side as well to the public price on their own members, this is, this is just can't, it can't

security by seeking to shape the future rather than waiting for the future to shape us. when china is named as the main threats in the indo pacific region in the australian national defense strategy report claims the beijing is building up its military capability without transparency engaging in an arms race with australia. with chinese australian relations spiralled after cambra, london and washington signed the orchestra military treaty in 2021. in march this year, the u. s. and u. k. agreed to help australia acquire nuclear power submarines. a step strongly criticized by china. director of the center for counter had demonic studies. tim anderson says the camera follows america's path of anti china policy. camber is effectively talking the line with the u. s. the u. s. has asked them to back up u. s. in it's containment policy of china. the u. s. s. military bases surrounding china. it wants other partners basically to subsidize and support and give greater international legitimacy. and so unfortunately, cameras playing, playing that dependent role without a genuinely independent analysis of the situation has very little to do really with stroke defense. rather, it's one of the

us in order to do that. >> one of the barriers to collaboration is an understanding within the global industrial base as to what the demand signal is. we in the u.s. have the national security strategy, flow down to the national defense strategy and defense planning guidance, but that is classified. then it is somewhat unclear what government is saying we are going to buy and not by. -- buy. then when we have the budget cycles of one year budgets, you have planning, programming and budget execution cycle that has to start before that. it introduces a lot of chart. if you own a business, whether it is privately or publicly held, you need a clear demand signal over multiple years to allow you to invest discretionary funds in capital equipment tooling to drive the capacity and capability. however, we in the u.s. have gotten away from funding any surge capacity whatsoever. even before russia invaded ukraine, we had some challenges in terms of deploying all the different types of systems and making trade-offs and what would be used. now it has gotten more difficult. i go back to this focus, focus, focus. we need to pick a couple of things and have a clear demand signal and get the contra

nation strategy tows our primary adversary. maria: you mention corporate america and whether corporate america understands the national security risks so. we're reporting this morning how the fbi is telling using america and the west, silencing critics. walk us through how they do what that. >> sure, the fbi revelations i think have been very important. they're pulling out about 40 different operatives that are trying to put pressure on dissidents in china. we need to be a haven for dissidents that speak against this regime, really the free world is the place where people should be able to cross into it and be unafraid of the reach of these regimes so to spree chinaa opening up police stations in the united states and around the world, a human rights group in europe reported there are 100 be prc, ccp police stations around the world that are taking these sorts of actions and some of it is just pressure on social media, they're emulating russian tactics. from the beginning it's been clear that russia and china will learn from each other when it comes to information operations and activities a abroad but on the other hand it's actually going after dissidents and we can't have that on our own

national security. there is a doctrine of combating extremism, but terrorism. i think it is high time for us in the country to think about creating such a national strategy to counterat all levels. we are now talking to some diplomats. of course, we are upset that the embassy is being closed there in western countries, that people studied, worked for many years, and now they are all returning here. because it needs to be used properly now. and when the british empire was falling apart after , uh, the second world war, churchill was thinking about how to keep the power of great britain and he had such a tricircle theory, when he considered, uh, to great britain remained, uh, as if at the head of this movement in europe, he created such a system of three circles, it seems to me that the same system of three circles is also our diplomat to our president, the legislative branch. yes, first a system of one circle, so that if crimes are committed on the territory of the russian federation, including ethnic russians by representatives of various strata, so that it would not be possible for the diaspora to jump up and solve the issue of ransoming and pulling it out. i agre

if the had one its strategy sort of having pervasive 5g from china across the developed world and developing world that would have been a huge step back for us from a national security perspective the same with semiconductors. so i'm arguing for and not for everything. so i'm probably not arguing for agriculture, although i'd like to hear more about it. i'm arguing for those technologies that we identify as critical to our national security. okay. we have a question way in the back. then i go to follow up explanatory and i'm a part of cnn. i have two questions for you. one, do you plan to run for senate again in 2024? and as you also look at the presidential race, would do you support trump and his bid or would support governor desantis? you had nice things to say about him during this panel. what are you thinking about for potentially backing a presidential? well, i mean, i should start with the fact that my wife has been saying it's time to get a job so i'm getting i'm getting pressure on this front. i haven't decided yet on 20, 24. i'm thinking about it, obviously. and the reason i mean, if you run for office, you do it because you think you have something to con

can you give us an update of how the department of homeland security is working with the white house who developed a national strategy and what are the departments implementation plans to execute the strategy? >> senator, thank you very much for your support and encouragement of delivering on our commitment to address the incredibly troubling rise in antisemitism. in this country. just yesterday, i delivered remarks to the american jewish committee's belford center to speak about the rise in antisemitism and the compelling need for all of us to work together to address it and to address all forms of hate. there is no such thing as a small act of hate, when one group is targeted, we are all targeted. here again, our office of intelligence and analysis is assessing the threat landscape with respect to antisemitism and other forms of hate in its connectivity to violence, and disseminating information to our four partners so that communities -- compared to respond to it. we investigate or support the investigation of acts of hate oh long with and closely with our law enforcement partners across the enterprise. very impor

department's national security division and charlie sykes joins us mary mccord, this feels like this sort of patience, deliberate, and maybe aggressive, maybe you don't think it, is but legal strategy that jack smith is pursuing where he knows who he wants to talk to. he knows where the facts led him. he prevails in court until he gets, in this case, the testimony by vice president mike pence. >> yes we've seen it ever since he was appointed to sort of a steady stream of people going into the grand jury and jack smith taking up cases of refusal to testify first to the district court chief judge in, this case it was others if the side takes it up to the court of appeals, he's winning there. so here, you know, the question at this point is will the trump team either try to seek a full review of the entire -- what is called the endtire court of appeals or will they give up as they did with other cases as they did in trump's other high level officials. i don't know what the president's team will try to i findings communicated directly to trump himself again, supporting he knew there was no evidence of fraud >> right i want to show -- we assembled all of new part to help our viewers und

us in order to do that. >> one of the barriers to collaboration and understanding within the global industrial base as to what the demand signal is. we in the u.s. have the national security strategy, flow down to the national defense strategy and defense planning guidance, but that is classified. then it is somewhat unclear what government is saying we are going to buy and not by. then when we have the budget cycles of one year budgets, you have planning, programming and budget execution cycle that has to start waving before that. it introduces a lot of chart. if you own a business, whether it is privately or publicly held, you need a clear demand signal over multiple years to allow you to invest discretionary funds in capital equipment totaling -- tooling to drive the capacity and capability. however, we in the u.s. have gotten away from finding any surge capacity whatsoever. even before russia invaded ukraine, we pent some challenges in terms of deploying all the different types of systems and making trade-offs and what would be used. now it has gotten more difficult. i go back to this focus, focus, focus. we need to pick a couple of things and have a clear demand signal and ge

us and it's good to see you. biden administration has highlighted a indo-pacific as critical to u.s. national security. and in the bible national security strategy the indo-pacific said importance is highlighted stating, oh, no region will be of more significance to the world and everyday americans than thebe indo-pacific, end quote. yet in the fiscal year 2024 diplomatic programs budget the east asian ands pacific affairs was the fourth largest pierrot. so why isur it that the departmt is saying that the indo-pacific is the most important region by treating it as the fourth most important? >> one of the things, thank you. i think you're exactly right that for us this is many ways the most dynamic fastest-growing region inappropriate we know is generated that said for% of economic growth in recent years. trading partners investment partners and strategically usually important and we are specific action pacific nation or self. precise because at that we've the workwear doing in the indo-pacific across all of our bureaus. as a result we have in bureaus like european, now expertise on the indo-pacific so they can work, for example, with colleagues