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Thank you very much for your patience and waiting for us to get done with the vote. Mr. Child, lets hear your testimony. Thank you. Chair woman hartzler, Ranking Member speier, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss capability gaps in the Afghan National Security Forces. As the Deputy Inspector general for overseas Contingency Operations i manage the dod oversight for Operation Freedom Sentinel in afghanistan. As the chair of the interagency southwest...

Patience and waiting for us to get done with the vote. Mr. Child, lets hear your testimony. Thank you. Chair woman hartzler, Ranking Member speier, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss capability gaps in the Afghan National Security Forces. As the Deputy Inspector general for overseas Contingency Operations i manage the dod oversight for Operation Freedom Sentinel in afghanistan. As the chair of the interagency southwest asia joint Planning Group i ...

Welcome. Im delighted to convene this hearing. This is a very important topic and one i know the Ranking Member finds significant. Im happy to partner with her in exploring this subject. I also know the gentleman from North Carolina mr. Jones is attending the hearing with us today, therefore i ask unanimous consent that mr. Jones and any other Committee Members not assigned to this committee be able to participate in this hearing with understanding all members will be regulared for questions pri...

Tragedy or strife. Were strong because we are resilient. Because in a decade after decade we have stood together to defend our security, our prosperity, our values. And because we have resisted attempt after attempt to divide and make us turn on one another, and above all we are strong because of the core beliefs that hold us together. We need to heed the advice of president kennedy on his trip to berlin, the year of this Munich Security Conference began. Lift your eyes beyond the dangers of tod...

Secretary hagel, you have my first two minutes, and general dempsey, you get the next two. So for secretary hagel, theres been no discussion yet of the oco request for 15, which is 5. 6 billion. Wondering not whats in it. We have some information on t t that. But what do you know about a current 2014 oco request through the end of the c sflshgs whats in that and why do you need additional 5. 6 billion in 15 give than theres authority for you at least through the cr for 2014 money . Well, the qui...

I think its also clear that assad, because of how he has governed, has brought this astounding instability on himself, on his people, on his country. And it has allowed groups like isil, al qaeda is still there, other terrorist organizations, to be strengthened for obvious reasons. But just alone dealing with assad, where we are now, maybe two years ago, three years ago, thats not going to put isil back in the box or the feet beginning with degrading or defeating isil. Assads part of the equatio...

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General ham let me start with you. Sort of going in proposition with africom in many ways is youre not going to have large amounts of american troops under your command on the ground, if any. Did you feel at times that you were a general in charge of the contractor army . No, not at all. There is a proper role i think for the contractors but theres also a proper role for the uniformed military. Like the other Combatant Commanders and the Service Chiefs i was part of a discussion with the chairma...

Tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing knee jerk reaction that simply did not get what i thought was right. So the genesis of this book was not in any way a whistleblower book or etc. , it was really to pack some salience around a very policemen call issue. And that is the origins of polemical issue. Now, before i begin the actual argument in the book, i want to lay out a few disruptive facts from a decade of war. First is using, for example, 2010 numbers, the pentagon spent 366 billion w...

Politics. Being a heavily kurdish region, they dont have the greatest relationship with istanbul, they dont have the greatest relationship with the turkish government. Its a completely different world. Its completely opposite. When their Armed Forces Show up, its not really lacked upon as a good thin. This is why i want to say thank you to our military thats here today, to the army, the navy, the military in general, the marines, the coast guard, even i saw a couple air force running around here...