Minutes. [applause] a huge thanks to our markable Strategy GroupTeam Including emmanuel, Deb Cunningham so many others, thank you all of the time you put into preparing for this summit. [applause] thank you also to the trustees who are so supportive of this work and in particular, james harmon and board chair thank you to our trustee, 82 years ago today japan attacked the u. S. Naval base at pearl harbor. During the United States into what would become the deadliest war in human history. Terrorism, we are today, live in a tumultuous era bearing witness to the evils of holocaust to Nuclear Devastation and proliferation and the cold war. Brought about numerous geopolitical paradigm shift. The American Leadership in the world on behalf of freedom and democracy and human dignity. 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Each of these requires human intelligence of the highest order especially American Leadership in american democracy meets the emerging test before. Government and military leadership of the private sector and the media. I especially like to think members of our Armed Services who live there in the constitution everyday and a powerful reminder the differences between open society and the capitalism we have in our adversaries and i like to think with deep respect, journalist taking part today and the role they play in forming difficult issues and we hope you learn from this discussion and thank you for being here. It is executive director to introduce our speakers. [applause] welcome to all of you here. It is good to see familiar faces and those with us last summer and a few months ago we made it our collective goal to use our imagination and look over the horizon and those challenges right in front of us. Jointly create a more optimistic future. We shook up outdated assumptions about africa, relationship with china. Former deputy Prime Minister told us we were entering a middle east and president zelenskyy said to us with americas help ukraine will win. In spectacular fashion, the world had other plans. It is very difficult the last few months and i want to speak gratitude to friends of ours working tirelessly everyday for allied partnered government and those involved, thank you for the hard work you are doing. Peace and democracy seems to be on the back foot under attack all the more reason to double our efforts. One of my favorite things of doctor kinzinger rightfully eulogized in the past few days, a statement duty is to bridge the gap between the nations experience in a better fishing. Thats exactly what we strive to do your we are setting up a more positive vision and strategy concrete needs to meet it. 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Its my pleasure to welcome on stage michelle, courtney to kick us off with one of the most important topics, how to get our armed forces of technology and innovation we need, thank you all for being here. [applause] thank you all for being here, i am thrilled to see so many people here today. Until dans opening remarks it hadnt occurred to me the date today, the anniversary of pearl harbor and it is so appropriate we are beginning the forum today on anniversary with a session about future challenges and the need for u. S. Military and government to transform challenges especially when you look back and think about the fact that how much this nation this military, this world has changed so we have a tremendous group to talk about this, the director of the unit senior advisor. I have my list. Managing partner under secretary of defense for policy in general and i have a feeling will be online. You want to talk about these challenges but because we are the first challenge, a list to hold on most of the nominations these last several months while they happen held up, and impact on this. I am grateful complex, located world and many have talked about them in this decade and in the next one to two years so you want us back in the business, leaders in the right places and getting after the secretary and the president. It has impacted that, a lot of folks acting in positions but not able to make these for five or ten years out, it is important everybody in this room, you know having a vision is important so we are back to that and we are grateful so there is still work to do and they are being held up. I would say on the family front that i hope is been hurt by everybody in the room, a tremendous impact in a bad way. You think about families that think theyre going to move, friends to leave and friends to make and they would have employment it has been hard for families and that thankfully will be able to get back in there is still work to do but we can get back to doing the business to defend the nation. I want to talk about current challenges, one of the biggest threats . Told me i can tell some jokes. You can tell some jokes, believe me. What are some right now . Before i talk about threats and i will talk to you if you are okay, i will hit that to do that special Operations Command, it is an opportunity, global combatant command that has the opportunity the world on any given day through the eyes of 6000 team mates in 80 countries across the world, a small part of the 70000 Army Navy Air force marine and space force special operations and i think they have the opportunity because they worked in many domains, space and cyber domain to see the world as i like to see it from fiber to fiber, a good topic on the things that i will tell you we are seeing. We see the prc compete globally in this world not only bound we have had the chance recently to travel to south america and africa and wielding elements of the dramatic economic and some level of information, probably more the military peace in the indo pacific. We are seeing russia not just bound to ukraine and the travesties there and unfortunate events, ukrainian people but also other parts of europe as we know as well africa north and west and we were glad to see that looks like where russia appears through its paramilitary defense. We also see russia so they are not down to the european continent competing the tabla and violent extremism. Isis, al qaeda each day looks to be gained of putting even though theres a lot of work done not only in special operations but the whole of partners and allies with those Networks Keep them at bay and commented partners and allies looking to regain that each and every day. They desire thats been contained, the ideology is unconstrained and runs rampant through the internet and last through the interest of time, the world votes, here comes another crisis and top of mind is whats gone with hamas and israel and the world is extremely busy not only that but across the world to address this and Operations Command as well but even before we had diplomats in the United States and partners and allies under addressed a lot of work to do. Last i will talk to the panel queasy the proliferation of drones and most may go right to them, they are getting, loitering and becoming many of many when you have the economy do it in receipt robotics in a way that a landbased drone, we see them in maritime and inservice face. Artificial intelligence i try to check these questions, chat gpt and the perplexity it didnt come up with any good jokes but that is both in advance, we harness that and make decisions faster and grab maybe adverse about. Ill just end with the arrival of smart cities, pressure devices and sensors and it is being connected and is either a challenge against us, something we should harness. I think they were more happy to see me. Not true. It seemed a number of different threats, what policy makers see as a threat and what did they do to address these . I think the challenge is volatility such that even though the strategy deterring china as a pacing threat, we got russia continue aggression against ukraine, we now have an explosive situation between hamas and israel in the middle east and potential escalation to a larger conflict and counterterrorism operation, many things that calling attention to here and now because of the stakes involved in partners and allies but at the same time the department we have to be able to keep our eyes and focus on the most consequential threat in my view preventing with china whether its over taiwan or Something Else and we know xi jinping is interested in integrating taiwan into Greater China on his watch, we know he prefers political and economic coercion to achieve that objective as an hong kong but we also know hes instructed military to have options ready by 2027 so we need to be able to anticipate potential test of our ability to deter and that timeframe. That is really driving the pentagon a lot of leadership effort to first of all, sat with our allies so the work in the water, deepening relationship with japan, korea, philippines and other allies and partners, all medical but its also put a premium on accelerating the adoption of Innovative Technologies, integration into the legacy force and that will be critical to passing that deterrence test if he thinks about using force with enough challenges that he says not today so i know we will talk a lot about technology pieces but i want to put a pin on another key issue not getting enough attention and that is human capital. We got to transform our workforce. Im not suggesting the pentagon become a Major Technology developer, i am suggesting we need to enhance a. I. Literacy so you can have the pentagon and dod personnel evaluators, smart dictators and tests and evaluators of technology, smart users of technology and overseers so we have to increase tech and a. I. Literacy of the department, a lot of great ideas to do that whether it is making better use of the talent we have giving tech competent people in the military and Civil Service career paths to home that and make larger contributions or bring in new talent to the pipeline whether we have a problem in this country at college is affordable. What if we offer additional digital reserve corps to tapping to the wonderful talent in the ecosystem . There are very straightforward answers to bring the talent we need, it has to be a whole of nation effort in this opposition. Ill stop there but i hope we get to the allies and workforce peace, not just the technology piece which is critical but you have to build, you have to work on all foundations that are going to allow us to keep our edge. You can cap. [applause] you can clap after every answer. Michelle mentioned innovatio. Michelle mentioned adoption of Innovative Technologies and you saw the Department Efforts to speed up the adoption of commercial technology and i wonder, where has innovation been on threats we hear about here and where is the i you taking innovation right now . First of all, it has to be a here and im great to be appear with great friends and teammates and i think it is fitting we are sitting here today on pearl harbor day and you can help crystallized mind of what happens when youre not prepared and if we end up in the conflict michelle was talking about, we are not going to have a time so i think that is really useful if you step back we face as a nation whether it is the challenge from china or others we are piecing, we cannot fall for those must be fully leveraged capability of technology and amazing capability in our tech sector here, we have to take full advantage of that we have to because of the speed to bring back capability there which can be faster and capabilities for National Security but also quality and capability technology, much of the is in that tech sector. Things like artificial intelligence, cyber, space, bio technology, those areas are not just going faster but always will go faster driven by relentless demand of consumers around the world and the enterprises and i just came from that world. That capability will always go faster to meet those demands so we have to at the same time go hard and deep to take full advantage of their capabilities and pathways and we have to take advantage of that. They are originally back and seeing that and wanting to get after it. If you step back and look at that, i had the privilege of looking at the on a parttime basis back then it was about building the bridge between the department at tech sector. Tactical Nuclear Weapon inside. Such a conflict concern for little while there is a rush, indians and others said there was no rule here but there was a concern when this was over that that changed the atmosphere, suddenly it is legitimized that a Nuclear State might threaten you have seen from the moment, the overall working threat. When we talk and you hear people use that with that means what they have. That component of the time so i owned a bomber during that time. Nothing else what it did the conversation would have it down to i would say the dining room table of peoples homes and what that really means. And a lot of folks didnt Pay Attention to. The conversation now we have forms like this and discuss. This was really important, America Needs to understand how we get in ukraine when the soviet union broke out, were countries out of the soviet union lived here, russia, kazakhstan and ukraine. Ukraine at that moment was the Third LargestNuclear Power. But not in control of the weapon. They have the possession of those weapons, we seen what ukrainians can do when they have the ability but we the United States had the policy now, always will. The whole world in particular must, our National Security we sat down and 94 and persuaded them which they did and they gave up Nuclear Weapons and if something happens, we will be there, here we are. Then fast forward to the time you mentioned russians start threatening Nuclear Weapons and the world says ukraine had Nuclear Weapons, the cant respond, russia is threatening with Nuclear Weapons, where are we . I have said all along ukraine, if United States does not stand behind ukraine, i believe you are going to see, i worry what our enemies with thing that i worry much more about what our allies would think and i really think it in ukraine would set off and what we have seen. Your colleagues. That is a separation but it is more talked about but you guys than it is on the bill. The people who do not want in a whole lot where the 92 of us think we need to do this dont get nearly that coverage but back to that question, we have the conversations and it is a series conversations, there arent a lot of things that do but and the south koreans under the Nuclear Umbrella and certainly all nato we cant count on the United States. It is a serious concern. We talked about the Transactional Partnership between russia and china, we dont have transactions and partners. To prove extended time and that was loose on and south korea and republic of korea as well as b52 for the first time. A long time. What made that even more amazing as commander being able to see the deterrence factor because on each wing from are okay and in japan and i think that makes a difference in regards to the and the confidence building insurance. I have so much more including the Industrial Base but one of the rules and their effect to make sure to stay on schedule and this retaliation promise that we dont so im afraid we have to end it here but i want to thank you both in the conversation. [applause] [applause] we can institute that, thank you, thank you so much. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now my great pleasure to introduce david cameron, he needs no introduction, a brandnew foreign secretary of United Kingdom and former Prime Minister seeing how the west must stand together ukraine and other issues. [appla