Scientist and retired Navy officer Dr. David Titley asks a big question: Could the US military play a role in combating climate change? This talk was presented at an official TED conference. Read our curation guidelines. Learn moreabout the Penn State Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate...
In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplicity: Break it in two.
Now, the nature of the work that I do and my colleagues do in the sports culture and the US military, in schools, we pioneered this approach called the bystander approach to gender-violence prevention. 所以有很多原因解释为什么我们需要男人...
and how I first got introduced to the military was when I was 13 years old and I got sent away to military school, because my mother had been threatening me with this idea of military school ever since I was eight years old.我并非来自军人家庭。
And in that scenario,according to our economists' best estimates, for a net cost of 175 billion -- a quarter of US military spending, one percent of GDP -- you could lift all impoverished Americans above the poverty line. You could actually eradicate poverty. Now, that should be our goal...
And in that scenario, according to our economists' best estimates, for a net cost of 175 billion -- a quarter of US military spending, one percent of GDP -- you could lift all impoverished Americans above the poverty line. You could actually eradicate poverty. Now, that should be our ...
we would have talked about the military innovation of the day -- the massive Vauban-style fortifications -- and we could have predicted a period of stability in the world or in Europe. 我们可能会谈大规模沃邦式防御堡垒 这样的军事创新 我们由此预测 世界或欧洲会有一段和平时期 那段时期的情况也确...
Now let me talk about what happens when you enter into the military.现在让我谈谈当你进入军队时会发生什么。 When you join the armed forces,you're going to go through a medical exam,you're going to take a physical fitness test,you're going to take a drug test,you're going to take a...
shopping, or why a player on an opposing team called her a terrorist and told her to go back where she came from. I couldn't reassure her that her father's ultimate life sacrifice by serving in the United States military as an interpreter would make her more valued as an American ...
And in that scenario,according to our economists' best estimates, for a net cost of 175 billion -- a quarter of US military spending, one percent of GDP -- you could lift all impoverished Americans above the poverty line. You could actually eradicate poverty. Now, that should be our goal...