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This is Masters in Business with Barry Redholz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast, what can I say?

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter under Barack Obama was in the studio for over an hour,

and we talked about everything from Iran to North Korea to China to Russia

to the procurement process to what we do right with the military and what we get wrong

and what we areas we really need to improve.

This was a tour-to-force conversation from somebody who is not only brilliant, he's a

Rhodes Scholar, a PhD in physics, but a historian who focuses on military history in the medieval

times.

And that has colored how he looks at the world, how he looks at the role of government.

I could talk about him for hours, but instead I'm just going to say with no further ado,

my conversation with former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

This is Masters in Business with Barry Redholz on Bloomberg Radio.

My extra special guest this week is Ash Carter.

He is the former Secretary of Defense under President Barack Obama.

He is the five-time winner of the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal.

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