Michele Flournoy on Major U.S. Foreign Policy Crises

Intelligence Matters

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Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this special episode of Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell speaks with former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy about the future of the U.S. military, the Iran nuclear deal, the North Korea crisis, Russian election interference and the U.S. falling into the shadow of China's economic dominance. However, Flournoy does not only weigh in on the headlines, but offers advice to young women interested in a national security career field. When her nomination was confirmed by the Senate in 2009, Flournoy became the highest-ranking woman at the Pentagon in the department's history.

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0:31.0	The presidential rhetoric and the exchange of insults back and forth between President
0:37.4	Trump and Kim Jong-un has heightened the sense of crisis and I think created an environment
0:43.3	where the risk of miscalculation is much higher.
0:46.4	I do support a more robust effort to push back on Iran's destabilizing behavior in the
0:53.8	region, but we have to be smart about it.
0:55.7	Let's keep the nuclear issue off the table for right now because it's contained.
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