So, Does the National Security Strategy Matter?
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🗓️ 7 August 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The War on the Rocks podcast is back with a big episode and an all-star cast. Hal Brands and Alex Bick of SAIS, Will Inboden of the Clements Center at the University of Texas, Kori Schake of the Hoover Institution, Colin Kahl of Georgetown, and Peter Feaver of Duke dish about the U..S. National Security Strategy, a report required by Congress meant to basically lay out how the president views America's role in the world and how he plans to exercise power. And having a bipartisan group of national security leaders around the table, Ryan Evans couldn't resist asking how they all felt the Iran deal was playing out at age two (yes, Ryan misspoke and says it's one year old in the intro - please forgive him).
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense and foreign Affairs. My name's Ryan Evans. I'm the |
| 0:14.4 | Editor-in-Chief of Warren the Rocks, and we are back from a podcast hiatus. In this episode, we talk about the |
| 0:20.0 | U.S. National Security Strategy, not the idea of it necessarily but the specific report to Congress |
| 0:24.7 | itself, which was required by the Goldwater Nichols Act. |
| 0:27.8 | I was joined in this episode by Corey Shockey of the Hoover Institution, Peter Fever of Duke, |
| 0:32.1 | Colin Call of Georgetown, and most recently Vice President |
| 0:34.8 | Biden's National Security Advisor, Hal Brands and Alex Bick of Johns Hopkins-Sice, and of course |
| 0:40.1 | Will In Bowden, the Director of the Clement Seton Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Texas. |
| 0:45.0 | Our collaborators and partners in the Texas National Security Network, which you've probably read about on |
| 0:49.4 | Warren the Rocks and seen the new logo at the top of the site. And in fact, we recorded this podcast in lovely Beaver Creek, Colorado |
| 0:55.8 | where the Clement Center hosts about 15 promising junior scholars every year |
| 0:59.6 | to spend time with and hear from senior scholars and former senior government officials as well as lowly |
| 1:04.6 | editors like me. |
| 1:06.4 | So not only do we talk about the National Security Strategy or the NSS, but we also close with |
| 1:10.8 | a discussion on the Iran nuclear deal. It's been about a year since it's been |
| 1:15.2 | inked, since it's been, you know, sort of put to bed. And we have Republicans and Democrats |
| 1:20.9 | are on the table, so I thought why not hear what they all think of it enjoy the episode. The reason we are doing this podcast is so we're out in Beaver Creek as I just talked about in the intro and |
| 1:37.4 | We're sitting in the same bar in War on the Rock spirit with many of these same people around this table, most of the people around |
| 1:44.3 | this table. |
| 1:45.5 | And I said somewhat provocatively, does the national security strategy even matter? |
| 1:51.0 | And Peter Fever slammed his fist down on the table said yes and just walked away and I said well we obviously have to do a podcast |
| 1:59.8 | on this episode because there's some strong feelings and we could revisit this topic in a |
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