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Of Naval Operations John Richardson and comidant robert miller. Good morning. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the plans and programs in the department of the Navy Fiscal Year 2018. I want to thank each of the witnesses for their distinguished service and is civilians they lead who are serving around the world today. In recent months, our nations senior civilian defense and military leaders have testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. ...

Assertive abroad. Thats just what we are doing. Thats something that we are addressing with this Regional Security strategy. Admiral harris, as i indicated in my opening remarks, theres concern about north korea. I recall when we met in singapore, you expressed significant concern. Can you just briefly give us your latest update about north korean activities . I might add, since china shared a border with north korea, are they at all being helpful or do they recognize the threat . Senator, i bel...

The forces and the presence of the pkk, none of these issues are easy and none of them are going to go away tomorrow. The kurds are fighting isis right now, they are kind of the pointy end of the spear, they are not perfect and they need more support in our view. I think eventually the International Community will come around to giving them that support. I would like to see it happen sooner rather than later. That does not mean theres not questions with the impact on the pkk, how turkey would ad...

Why would you be interested in an insurance policy wax those files often contain the blueprint of the buildings he insured. Allied air forces have the blueprints particularly useful when theyre trying to figure out how to bomb the structures. In november 1942 just after the allies invasion of north africa, dulles slipped into switzerland with orders from donovan to penetrate nazi germany. In burnie set up what amounted to a mini cia running espionage operations funding guerrilla missions in occu...

Asia pacific area. So weve had those treaty obligations for a long time. A long, long time. Secretary cohen . If i can followup on secretary browns answer. I think we have to be concerned what china thinks. We are up to, and also be concerned about what the Asian Countries believe is necessary. As seen, china is number one trading partner replacing the United States, were number four. To say the u. S. Is trying to contain china would be to sea all of the members of asean are trying to contain ch...

When we looked at the drivers license, it was a female. And she was born in 1963. Which hit home to me because im a year older. And so it was tough. Reporter the ntsb is heading up this investigation. Members are here trying to put the pieces together. They want to get the plane out of the water as soon as possible. But they have to hire a private company to do that. Well have more on the First Responders and how they tried to save the pilot coming up at 6 00. As that cessna crashed into San Pab...

And we know take you to an event by the American Enterprise institute. Its about defense strategy. Its just about to start. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] weve been working together but we met when he was commander of Pacific Forces and we will talk more about that this morning. I want to offer you the opportunity including our online...

Cordel davis pledged the falloff 2016, just one semester before tim. When i first walked in, it was so beautiful. It felt like my future was going to be bright. One made majestic by a wealthy elum in one of the most expensive renovations in history. But beyond the perfect venear this beta chapter had a checkered past at penn state, dating back to 2009. They were shut down by the National Fraternity for Alcohol Violations but they were able to come back on the condition they would be dry. In 2010...

Likes to lose a debate including me, but this was the president s call and i respected his deliberations and decision. She also talks about benghazi, and she says that there will never be perfect clarity on everything that happened. So its really a hotbutton issue. Its going to continue be a political flashpoint. Certainly thats not something that republicans will be satisfied. Nor do i think that Hillary Clinton expects they will buy that. Finally, a really interesting little vignette that she ...

An annual pentagon report to Congress Warns of chinas military is likely training for strikes on u. S. Targets, the Peoples Liberation army has rapidly expanded its overwater bomber operating areas, gaining experience in maritime regions and likely training for strikes. The Chinese Air Force has also shifted to a nuclear mission. The report echoes public warnings from top pentagon officials that China Remains the u. S. Militarys biggest longterm challenge. Without focused involvement and engagem...