This afternoon CSPAN aired a program on American defense strategy hosted by the Aspen Institute's Strategy Group. This panel discussion included former undersecretary of Defense for Policy (President Obama) Michele Flournoy, and former National Security Council member (President George HW Bush) Philip Zelikow. Both are members of the Aspen Strategy Group as are Condelezza Rice, John Podesta, Madeleine Albright, and Dianne Feinstein, to name a few. The Aspen Institute is notorious for being the think tank behind national policy. The discussion centered on how to manage a military that is expensive and getting more so.
John Negroponte, former ambassador to the UN and the first director of the National Intelligence Agency (George W. Bush) made a suggestion about an hour and 14 minutes into the discussion.
"Why," he said, "doesn't the United States do some 'capacitating' with the UN Peacekeeping Forces? It would be much cheaper. In fact, in a word, outsourcing our military requirements to the UN would be an order of magnitude cheaper."
Both former undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy and former National Security Council Member Philip Zelikow agreed that this would be a good idea.
So efficient! So cheap!
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AmericanDefe
John Negroponte, former ambassador to the UN and the first director of the National Intelligence Agency (George W. Bush) made a suggestion about an hour and 14 minutes into the discussion.
"Why," he said, "doesn't the United States do some 'capacitating' with the UN Peacekeeping Forces? It would be much cheaper. In fact, in a word, outsourcing our military requirements to the UN would be an order of magnitude cheaper."
Both former undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy and former National Security Council Member Philip Zelikow agreed that this would be a good idea.
So efficient! So cheap!
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AmericanDefe
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