Security officer, go fix it for me. It has to start with the c. E. O. , to say this is a top priority for us as a company. But it is the thing that will slow our industry and can do billions of dollars of brand damage just like that, if bad question about one or two specific things that you would guys misuse the data. John . John, with the wall street journal. Take us back to india for a second and your enthusiasm about modi. There have been a lot of c. E. O. s that have come back and said this is indias time. Theyve said that with congress in charge. Whats different this time . Sure. So i bet on india bigtime almost 15 years ago as a vehicle for emerging countries and graduating 600,000 engineers a year. Our country only graduates 60,000 in the category im interested in. Its the top 5 of their populous who goes into these schools. Unbelievably good talent. Indias issues have been selfinflicted. And i think if you were to talk to c. E. O. s three years ago, most of them would point out that they couldnt solve their problems. 76 of their economy is internally generated, so they dont have the problem with trade that china or other countries do. Thats a nice way of saying they control their economy. Their parties were so divisive. There was clearly corruption at the top. They didnt execute. They had no courage. And so whats different is you have a leader who is going to execute. Like anything else, you dont want to make the expectations so high you cant deliver. He will make the tough decisions. Hes captured the imagination of the people. Hes captured the imagination of the business community. We all know spending is more than half confidence in the business community. And the citizens. And hes streamlining government. He controls all the political operations. So he doesnt have to deal with a divided, using our Words Congress and senate, in terms of the direction. So thats why you see people suddenly enthusiastic. If they dont mess it up, theyre going to have a great run. Again, im going to bet again on india in a big way. Thats different than many other emerging markets. Youve got the problems in russia and china in terms of the challenges. Would you agree with that, john . I dont know whether he has proved himself yet. Im not sure modi has had a chance to prove himself yet. There have been so many moments of enthusiasm about india that get caught in the bureaucratic traffic jam that then unholds. It was just interesting to hear you, this early in his tenure, so forcefully endorsing a belief that theres going to really be change. Well, john, part of what i do, i bet on market transitions. We wont always be right. But youve got to bet before it becomes obvious. Is it a given hell be successful . Well, john, part of what i do, i bet on market transitions. We wont always be right. But youve got to bet before it becomes obvious. Is no. They have all the weaknesses of the Worlds Largest democracy. But they have the youngest world population, a great Education System for the very top. They need to bring that through. So if they execute, i think theyre going to have a great run. You can handicap it, in terms of it, maybe two times out of three or play out. Over here, please. Ivan. What was your thought process in the purchase of scientific atlanta . I always thought that the cable boxes, set top boxes, were going to be the center of the connected home. When you bought it, i was excited, because i thought there would be no Better Company to make that happen. Yet nothing has really evolved on the settop box in the past 10 years. And the time since you brought it. Three thoughts. Whenever you interface to your customers, if youre trying to be something other than just a transport or network, you say, where do they make their money . My view, and it has not changed, the vast majority of Service Providers around the world make their money on video. It would not only be 95 of the load on the network, it will also be the entertainment. Netflix, comcast are going after that. Or some of the european companies, on buying sports teams. The scientific atlanta decision for us, brought us into the most relevant space for the customers. And they had a unique expertise the customer did not have. What is occurring now, however, is the settop boxes are comot commodityizing. So the ability to move from settop boxes into the cloud with video into the cloud is the next transition weve got to make. Its hard to do. The margins on settop boxes have dropped a fair amount. But there are areas you have to play for the Service Providers. The number one is video. The number two is mobility. The number three area is, how do they transform themselves to provide a different level of capability to their individual customers, to small to Medium Business and to enterprise . And how quickly they can develop these new services. If you align with their Top Priorities, youre going to sell them a lot. If you dont align with the Top Priorities and all youre doing is providing boxes, youre going to get killed by the whitelabel players. The boxes they sell it at extremely low margins. Thats the play were making, and its been a good one for us in terms of relevance and Service Providers. A couple more questions for those who have them. All right. Yes, please. Im aning investigative reporter. Im curious, if you would be kind enough to elaborate a little more on the organized crime attacks on security. Are they all in eastern europe, russia, china . No. Theyre everywhere. If you watch what is occurring organized crime, you know, its like in the movies. Why do you rob a bank . Thats where the money is. The organized crime everywhere in the world is beginning to look at if youre going to try to take money from people or from companies, how do you do it in this new electronic age . Unfortunately, theyre getting remarkably sophisticated. Some of the strong players are out in eastern europe. Some of them are out of lavin out of latin america. Unfortunately, their ability to get the sophistication of the attacks down so many people think well its Just Software connected to somebodys electronic device. 99. 9 of the Security Issues are done different ways. This is one that i think is going to be with us for a while. Its one that each consumer, unfortunately, has to become educated on. What are the implications if you open up a letter that looks like its sent from your bank that actually was somebody else doing fishing . And this is where i think theres opportunities for companies to really be successful in the security segment. Were going to try to take a negative and make a very positive. Time will tell if well be as successful as i believe we can be. Were going to try to take a one last question. Christian blum from. The name emc came up. You guys have been mentioned as being potentially in the mix. I was just wondering if youd want to comment on that. First, i think joe is a very good leader. Emc is a very good partner for us. What we did with emc is in the storage business, we partnered with them, net app, now ibm, to lead in the data centers in terms of direction. What weve done different than many of our counterparts is weve combined all of our products to Work Together. So we really have uniquely gone across each of our product areas and service areas, so its one front in terms of direction, emc decided not to do that, which perhaps opened up some of the challenges. You dont want to comment on activity with a given company, but ill make an exception on this one. We usually get the opportunity for almost every move in the industry. The name emc came up. We usually we treat the people well, et cetera. If joe and i were going to do something here, we would have done it a year or two ago in terms of the direction. So thats back to the market transitions question. All right. Thats a very candid answer. Glad we could end on that. Its been great visiting with you. My image of you climbing up a hill with a smile on your face is what id take away. Great to have you. Thank you very much. Please give warm applause to john chambers. Final words. Thank you very much indeed. Youre clearly getting more than enough sleep. Time to come back to work. And john, if i may extraordinary, 20 years at the top of the Technology Sector an extraordinary period of longevity. When you became c. E. O. Of cisco, steve jobs was still in exile from apple. The first iphone was almost a decade way. Mark zuckerburg was in the sixth grade. And ali babba was simply a fictional character. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much indeed, all of you for being here. You can see this again. Please join us for our next viewpoints breakfast, which will be december 8 with denise morrison, the c. E. O. Of the Campbell Soup company. It will be december, it will be cold it will be a perfect time to be talking about soup and all those other great products. Thank you very much enjoy your day [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] i want to thank him for being here and ill properly introduce him in a moment. The president has sent forward a request for the authorization for the use of military force. Because of the nature and the way that this is happening that the conflict has been ongoing for about six months now, i think one of the things that most people here are concerned about is that there is a level of confidence in what were doing and that it is going to achieve the stated goals that the president has laid out. And i dont know of anybody more equipped to come before us today than general allen, who served our country with great distinction. I think many people feel decently well about what is happening in iraq. I think there are a lot of questions relative to syria. My sense is today youll have a number of questions regarding that. And we hope that what youll do general allen is give us an honest assessment as to the end state we would like to see happen in iraq and syria when we complete the activities that were involved in. And understand the political and military strategy that we have under way. And to give us a little sense of time frame relative to the various activities that are necessary. I was just in iraq last week in both baghdad andish isherbil with our kurdish friends and ankara with our turkish friends. The shia militias are everywhere in iraq as people know. General sulayman who was head of the force for iran has now become a celebrity in iraq. And i have to say it feels very strange to be there knowing much of the activity we have under way while it is necessary is really to irans benefit. And i know there is a lot of concerns that after this activity is completed, if were successful with isis, which i know we will be, and in essence the next issue is going to be dealing with security of our forces there with the shia militias. I was happy to see that turkey has gone ahead and signed an agreement, to train and equip agreement, thats something you made happen and thank you for that. At the same time, i know there is a lot of concerns now about how we deal with assads vero bombs as we train and equip these individuals, how do we protect them from the barrel bonds which cause them to diminish in greater numbers than they can be trained. Im sure youll talk about that. There is a lost discussion as you you know on the ground there about the exclusion zone. I know you have questions about that. And no fly discussions. It may be taking place to draw turkey more into what is happening in syria itself, which i think most of it most of us believe is very important. So as we as i close, i want to say we owe it to our nation as we consider this to know that the full range of americas elements of national power, diplomatic, economic, and military means are aligned aligned in such a way to get to the administrations stated goals. Because of the nature of this decision, one, again this being made after a fact, all of us need to have confidence that the administration is truly committed to achieving the stated goals that they laid out and i think your testimony here is going to be very valuable to us. With that, i would like to turn to our distinguished Ranking Member, senator menendez who has been a great partner on all of these issues. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for calling the hearing and for our work forward on this. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for calling the hearing and for our work forward on this. And general allen, welcome back to the committee and thank you for your distinguished service to our country in so many different ways including your present position as a special envoy. Although this hearing is not focused on the administrations proposed authorization for the use of military force against isil, it is by nature an opportunity to probe the focused on the administrations dynamics of our current antiisil strategy that will inform our discussion of an aumf. And specifically with a strategy that relies on u. S. Air power and logistics, intelligence and training support, but not on u. S. Troops on the ground would be successful in achieving our ultimate goal to end the barbaric rampage of isil. There are those who believe that it is up to our local partners on the ground to ultimately take this war across the finish line. Ive heard from others who believe isil can be defeated cannot be defeated without a significant u. S. Ground commitment. So i would like to hear from you, general allen, where you come down on what will be required to eradicate isil, given that we hear reports from secretary carters meetings in kuwait that while the antiisil strategy does not require fundamental recalibration, our Coalition Partners can be doing more. My view personally is that the United States must help combat isil and restore stability to the region. And we must follow through on codirector of the 21st century security and intelligence contributions, not the coordination of the military activities, i remain nonetheless closely synced with my colleagues in the military and we meet regularly with other departments and agencies involved to review the progress of theactivities. Were discussion the next steps. Now that we largely achieved the objectives of the campaigns first phase, to blunt isils Strategic Operational and tactical momentum in iraq. Through over 2500 coordinated Coalition Air strikes in support of our partners on the ground, we degraded isils leadership, logistical and operational capabilities and were denying it essential sanctuary in iraq from which it can plan and execute attacks. With new zealands very welcome announcement yesterday that it will provide military trainers to build the capacity of the iraqi Security Forces, a dozen Coalition Nations now participating in these efforts are operating from multiple sites across iraq. Still, the situation in iraq remains complex. And the road ahead will be challenging and nonlinear. Considering where we were only eight months ago, one can begin to see how the first phase of the strategy is delivering results. As i appear before this esteemed committee today, it is important to recall that in june of last year, isil burst into the International Scene as a seemingly irresistible force. It conquered a city, mosul, of 1. 5 million, then poured south down the tigris river valley toward baghdad, taking cities and towns and villages along the way. Outside tikrit, it rounded up and massacred over a thousand iraqi army recruits. To the west it broke through the border town and poured east toward baghdad. Isils spokesman vowed, quote, toward baghdad, taking cities and towns and villages along the way. Outside tikrit, it rounded up the battle will soon rage in baghdad. And the holy city of karbala unquote. Shortly there after isil launched a multiple prong attack further into northern iraq, massacring minority populations, and enslaving hundreds of women and girls, surrounding tens of thousands of yazidis and opening a clear route to erbil the regions capital. Then the United States acted. Since our first air strikes in august, isils advance has been blunted. And they have been driven back from the approaches to baghdad and erbil. Isil lost half of its iraq based leadership. Thousands of hardened fighters and is no longer able to mass and maneuver effectively and to commune communicate as an effective force. Iraqis standing on their feet. The the peshmerga has taken control of the mosul dam, the crossing with syria, the sinjar mountain, zumar and the kissic road junction which eliminated a supply route for isil from syria to mosul. These forces also broke the siege of the oil refinery and have begun to push north into the tigris valley. To the west, sunni tribes are working with iraqi Security Forces to retake the land in the heart of al anbar, a land i know well. Last weekend under the cover of to the west, sunni tribes are bad weather, isil launched an attack on the town of al baghdadi, near the air base in al anbar where our forces are located with the danes and australians to help to train iraqi soldiers and tribal volunteers. Isil as it has done over and over again rampaged through the town, killing civilians and driving hundreds of families into the safe haven of the air base. But the iraqis did not sit idle. They organized and fought back. The Prime Minister went to the joint Operations Center in baghdad and ordered an immediate counterattack. Town, killing civilians and driving hundreds of families into the safe haven of the air base. But the iraqis did not sit idle. They organized and fought back. The Prime Minister went to the joint Operations Center in baghdad and ordered an immediate counterattack. The minister of defense flew to al assad to organize available forces and iraqi Army Commander sent an armored column from baghdad to road march to al baghdadi to join the attack. And sunni tribal volunteers organized to support and in some cases led the attack. Today, much of al baghdadi is back in the hands of the local and tribal forces and as i was at al assad last month and my deputy was there just three days ago, i would