Committee meets to receive the testimony of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chief of staffs on the administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis for the first time before our committee and we welcome chairman dunford back. The question today, as it is each year for this hearing, is how well the administrations proposal meets the security needs of the nation. Factoring in both the external threats and the current state of our military. This committee has repeatedly heard testimony over the past two years that our country faces more serious complex security challenges now than we have faced before. The hearings and briefings we have held on the current state of our military have been disturbing. The administrations budget request of 603 billion for base requirements is 6 above the 17 enacted level and 3 above the last Obama Administration Budget Proposal. Its 37 billion below what this committee assessed last fall was needed and 58 bi
To welcome t. J. Stiles and hes an awardwinning author based out of berkeley, california and hes a native of minnesota and the graduate of carlton college. He went on to do his graduate work in history, not u. S. History, but european history at columbia. He spent time at Oxford University press and i believe the board is here today t. J. Worked with gabor on a number of items and there is gabor in the audience. Items that gabor put together and those speeches were delivered right here at cwi. T. J. And i had a little time yesterday to talk about his work and to talk about the craft of writing and our conversation reminded me of the fact that this that we have of professional academic writing and then there is popular writing. I think the day has come that we can just move away from that and t. J. Stiles, his work testifies to the fact that you can write engaging bog rav we ideas, with argument, with analysis and above all else, original research. T. J. Likes the archives. There are a
To welcome t. J. Stiles and hes an awardwinning author based out of berkeley, california and hes a native of minnesota and the graduate of carlton college. He went on to do his graduate work in history, not u. S. History, but european history at columbia. He spent time at Oxford University press and i believe the board is here today t. J. Worked with gabor on a number of items and there is gabor in the audience. Items that gabor put together and those speeches were delivered right here at cwi. T. J. And i had a little time yesterday to talk about his work and to talk about the craft of writing and our conversation reminded me of the fact that this that we have of professional academic writing and then there is popular writing. I think the day has come that we can just move away from that and t. J. Stiles, his work testifies to the fact that you can write engaging bog rav we ideas, with argument, with analysis and above all else, original research. T. J. Likes the archives. There are a
To welcome t. J. Stiles and hes an awardwinning author based out of berkeley, california and hes a native of minnesota and the graduate of carlton college. He went on to do his graduate work in history, not u. S. History, but european history at columbia. He spent time at Oxford University press and i believe the board is here today t. J. Worked with gabor on a number of items and there is gabor in the audience. Items that gabor put together and those speeches were delivered right here at cwi. T. J. And i had a little time yesterday to talk about his work and to talk about the craft of writing and our conversation reminded me of the fact that this that we have of professional academic writing and then there is popular writing. I think the day has come that we can just move away from that and t. J. Stiles, his work testifies to the fact that you can write engaging bog rav we ideas, with argument, with analysis and above all else, original research. T. J. Likes the archives. There are a
To welcome t. J. Stiles and hes an awardwinning author based out of berkeley, california and hes a native of minnesota and the graduate of carlton college. He went on to do his graduate work in history, not u. S. History, but european history at columbia. He spent time at Oxford University press and i believe the board is here today t. J. Worked with gabor on a number of items and there is gabor in the audience. Items that gabor put together and those speeches were delivered right here at cwi. T. J. And i had a little time yesterday to talk about his work and to talk about the craft of writing and our conversation reminded me of the fact that this that we have of professional academic writing and then there is popular writing. I think the day has come that we can just move away from that and t. J. Stiles, his work testifies to the fact that you can write engaging bog rav we ideas, with argument, with analysis and above all else, original research. T. J. Likes the archives. There are a