Welcome to Bomchell.

I'm Erin Simpson.

And I'm Roda Aynagha.

And we are here with another special live edition, live recording, this time with Natset Girl Squad.

Cheers to everyone in the house.

Thank you. this time with Natset Girl Squad. Cheers to everyone in the house. We have some fabulous guests with us here today. We have Dr. Mara Carlin, Dr. Kim Kagan, and Dana Stroll, and we are going to

talk about all kinds of interesting things. But first, many, many thanks to Maggie Feldman Pilch for

launching NatSet Girl Squad, for inviting us here to talk about all things substantive and

process-oriented. Thanks to all of you. Apparently, we sold 400 tickets for this event.

So that is huge thanks to the individual members of this community, both for making

this event happen but for also building this community and trying to create a more inclusive

and sophisticated space in the national security world. And finally, thanks to all the many

sponsors who are committed to building and supporting competent diversity and foreign policy in defense. So with all of that, you all are enjoying your lunches.

I regrettably have to admit, Roda, we're not drinking anything. Well, I mean, I'm drinking

coffee. Right. It's like the middle of the day. I feel like we should be... We really failed.

We drink it much less appropriate times of the day, usually. I think bored is like possibly drinking a fruity beverage on a beach somewhere.

Yeah, you're going to have to work on that mic discipline.

Talk straight forward.

Aaron's our resident maintainer of mic discipline.

It's very important.

It is.

As we mentioned, we have three fabulous guests. We did not all select short,

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