Good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. Peter singer and i are the scholars here who work with the 20th century federal security on intelligence. Peter runs that. I am a senior fellow. Today, we have the pleasure hosting a great group of army and rain course specialists on the broad subset subject of the future of land power and warfare. Todays news bulletins and the initial leaks on where the defense review and where the president posses new Budget Proposal will go are helping us create obvious links to the importance of the issue. Sudden, weref a hearing the future of the u. S. Army in particular may be further curtailed with the possibility of even even deeper cuts depending on what happens to the budget in the next couple of years. We know from two years ago the pentagon put out a defense strategic guidance, which basically argued the future of land warfare is changing and that large scale missions of the type the nation recently led in iraq and afghanistan are coming to an e