Partnerships to address a broad range of global challenges, building cyber space capability and confronting uncertainty with agility and innovation. This is a particularly difficult job today as we see a resurgent russia, and rising china, challenging us with Nuclear Capabilities, space and cyber space, as well as countries like north korea and iran, seeking greater roles in these domains, proliferation of technology, and information has increased risks, posed by nonstate actors in many of these areas, as well. In short, Strategic Deterrence may be more challenging today than it has ever been. This is why we at the Atlantic Council have been tackling many of these issues head on, including our work in russia, particularly our transatlantic Security Work as we chart a path for a europe, whole and free. Likewise we have been doing extensive programming on Cyber Security and cyber state craft initiative. Ranging from natos Cyber Mission to the recent cyberattack on sony. Our initiative and middle east peace and Security Initiative permit thinking about transatlantic security in a global context. And all of this work is done by the center for interNational Security. In that light, were very much looking forward to hearing from admiral haney today and to the discussion it will stimulate as we work to better understand the strategic challenges facing the nation. With that, i would like to invite our good friend, michael anderson, president , ceo of saab north america to the stage to introduce the admiral. Michael, the stage is yours. Thank you, chairman, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Once again, im michael anderson, im president , ceo of saab, north america. Saab has been a very active supporter of the Atlantic Council for many years and we have jointly been involved for years. The commander series has become an important platform for discussion of key issues in policies, and the close connection between the transatlantic relations. Were very pleased to see that so many of you could attend today. It is an honor for me to introduce our special guest today, admiral cecil d haney. Over the course of his 35year long service in uniform he has built a distinguished and decorated career in the navy. He also served as Liaison Officer for the office of the secretary of defense. Admiral haney comes at this with the depth of experience and previously served as the director. Combined with the region experience and the legislative background he has a true appreciation for the strategic complexity we face as a nation, as well as the practical challenges. Of matching resources and strategy. Admiral, were very proud and pleased to have you here today. Please join me in welcoming admiral haney to the stage. [ applause ] thank you very much. Well, good morning. Governor princemanhuntsman and also mike, thank you for the kind introduction. It is fantastic to be here today to interact with so many intellectuals, professionals who have been deeply involved in our nations security and policy apparatus for decades. So thanks to the brent skullcroft center for hostingtnxu and the Atlantic Council at large for what you do. Stood up to bring Foreign Policy actors together to ensure a better global future. And i salute the broad range of security and International Corporation issues that council has addressed over the years. I am honored to be here, but im astonished to be at the podium, by sitting in the audience listening to many of you who engaged so brilliantly in my top mission to deter strategic attack. Diminish to deter strategic while i thank tom schanker in advantage for moderating today he should know i appreciate his critical analysis for what he termed the new deterrent in his book, counter strike, that he coauthored with erik schmidt. Tom details how matt kroenig, who is also in the audience today, and barry grible, were instrumental in sparking the debate to understand that deterrence to stopping terrorism. It is that typical type of Critical Thinking and debate that i appreciate. So as i give you my thought, know that i value different opinions and perspectives and i look forward to my meaningful discussion. As we look at the world today it is important to stop and recognize just how far weve come since the end of the cold war. This month marks 22 years since former president george bush and russian president yeltsin signed part two. Although the treaty was never ratified it is a significant chapter in our history of establishing the glide slope of reducing the number of Nuclear Weapons. I can only imagine the rich number of exchanges that occurred in our history after that period. Today after providing you a brief overview of my perspective of the complex security environment we face i will center my remarks on two things. First, my priorities and approach as the commander of the u. S. Strategic command, and second, Strategic Deterrence with emphasis on the need for a Nuclear Deterrent force. Today as you know this Strategic Security environment is dynamic and violatal. The nature of strategic threats, weapons of mass destruction, we continue to see the capability to include but not limited to the Nuclear Capability. Counter space, cyber space activity t. Conventional and asymmetric threat s as well as the growing list of economic disasters and Disturbing Trends upsetting the strategic balance, giving rise for additional concern not only for me but for my fellow Combatant Commanders that are my teammates and that i work very closely with. Perhaps most alarming is the trend of proliferation of the capabilities, challenging our ability to hold other forces that are a risk. And ultimating impacting the strategic stability. This environment is also flanked with numerous ungoverned or ineffective ineffectively governs area ss for bad actors. We know we must continue to confront the violent extremists, as demonstrated by their barbaric actions that they lack the respect for the International Norms as weve sadly seen and witnessed in recent months to include those atrocityies in france, canada, and recent suicide bombs in nigeria. Clearly, in time provided here i will not be able to cover in these areas, but i will address the few that you think you will be interested in from my perspective. Ill start with russia. As most of you know, russia has had more than a decade of investments and modernization across their Strategic Nuclear forces. Had more than ten years in now, this is not about a continuation of the cold war. The cold war is over. And we know how that all turned out. This is about emerging capability at a time of significant concerns in russias execution of their near and abroad strategy. For example, president putin continues to stress the importance of russias Strategic Forces, seen with his active messaging in every conceivable way, through speech, press conferences and Robust National and International Media campaigns. You also may have seen news of Russian Strategic bombers penetrating the u. S. And allies, air defense identification zones on multiple occasions this year. Or perhaps you saw president putin on youtube ordering his commanders into action during major Strategic Force exercises both in october of 2013 and during the ukraine crisis in may of 2014. Russia also has significant cyber capability, we just need to look back at estonia, georgia and ukraine. Russia has also publicly stated they are developing counterSpace Capabilities, and as director clapper stated, russia leaders openly maintain they have anthony satellite weapons and conduct antisatellite research. Today, however, russia is not the only country that is in space. China is also modernizing their Strategic Forces. Theyre enhancing their silo based intercontinental based ballistic miss. And while open news source reports the first fleet tests of their new mobile missile, they already are making progress. On a successor that is expected to be another road mobile missile, icbm capable of carrying multiple war heads. Theyre also testing the integration of their new submarines. Providing china with the first sea based Nuclear Deterrent. Theyre also developing multiple multi dimensional Space Capabilities supporting their access in the campaign. But with more than 60 nations operating satellites in space, it is extremely problematic to see china conducting missile tests designed to destroy satellites as we saw back in july of this year and that event in 2007 when their antisatellite weapon created thousands of pieces of debris, endangering the Space Systems of all nations. They have also made head Lines Associated with exploitation of computer networks. As you know, north korea continues work to advance their nuclear ambition. They have conducted multiple Nuclear Tests and claimed to have possession of miniaturized war head capability of delivery by ballistic missile. At the same time they continue to move forward with both the development of a new road missile, the kno 8 icpb and a missile submarine. They, too, are developing offensive cyber capabilities, and there have been no shortage of headlines pointing to north korea. Iran has made no secret of their desire to acquire Nuclear Weapons and preventing them from acquiring these capabilities is paramount to regional stability. I remain the p 5 plus one negotiations will have the desired effect. Like north korea, there are also public examples of their cyber activities and capability. So as you can see we are fraught with an incredibly challenging geopolitical environment, of which i have barely scratched the surface in describing. And with that picture i want to give you an understanding of my priorities. And as commander of u. S. Strategic amn i hope it makes sense that my top priority is to deter strategic attack and to provide our nation with a safe, secure and effective Nuclear Deterrent force. With a National Debt that is more than 18 million im mindful some of our most pressing costs are with modernizing and capitalizing our strategic deterpt that. Means getting the strategy right for the longterm because we have sustained many of our capabilities much longer than originally planned. To give you an example, our missiles have been fielded in the 70s and will be sustained through 2030. The ohio ssbn submarine has already been extended from 30 to 40 years of service. Our newest b52 models came off the Assembly Line more than 50 years ago and there is no plans to retire them before 2040. Some of our war heads infrastructures have been around since world war ii and our stock pile is the oldest it has ever been, with the average age of over 27 years. Our nation faces a substantial multi decade recapitalization challenge and we must continue the investment toward that effect. Toward that effort. Our planned investments are significant. But are commensurate with the magnitude of the national resource, that is our Strategic Deterrent deterrent. We must get this right. As we reduce the number of war heads, the value becomes even more important, while at the same time facilitating the norm set by the nonproliferation treaty. We cannot do this alone, however. I work closely with my fellow Combatant Commanders and the interagency. But it is also working with our allies and partners and friends and enduring relationships, the think tanks and academia as well, to confront the broad range of challenges. We have been able to have meetings with a number of our allies, including the republic of korea, france, australia. Korea, the former defense minister of japan. Vice chief of defense of the united kingdom. And partners for spacesharing agreements. This past october we conducted a command of control exercises designed to train our department of Defense Forces and access assess our joint operational readiness across all the areas with a specific focus on nuclear readiness. And we did this not by ourselves. We did this in conjunction with the u. S. Northern command, norad, to include our canadian partners in exercises that were grouped together. Balance shield, positive response and determined dragon. I share this with you as i want you to have an appreciation of just how i value partnerships and collaboration and how we at u. S. Strategic command aim to work seamlessly across the interagency as well as with our allies and partners. As a nation we depend highly on Space Capabilities. More so than ever before. Space is fully integrated in our joint operations as well as our commercial and civil infrastructure. Space today, though, is contested, congested and competitive. And we in the International Community at large require assured access. While our space assets continue to face this growing threat from adversaries, adverse effects are also generated at the speed of cyber and cannot be ignored. In our lifetime we have benefitted immensely from computer capabilities. And i think it is fair so say as americans we rely on technology. But this also opened a threat axis regarding our Critical Infrastructure and information assurance. I think you can understand while addressing the challenges in space and building our cyber space capability is a top priority. My sixth and final priority is a ability to anticipate change and confront change and agility with innovation. We cant just look at military documents and understand what an adversearys next moves will be. We just have not always done well at predicting potential conflict. We were certainly surprised about the Chemical Attacks in syria, ukraine, crisis and more recently here the things in france and ottawa, canada. Its going to require us to stretch our imagination in the art of deterrence to get into what i call the cognitive space s to better understand and work with better solutions. I cant stress enough the vitality to bring together our National Leaders and think through some of our nations most challenging issues. Last summer, we cut the ribbon at u. S. Strategic commands war gaming center, in omaha. To help enable and challenge our thinking with the ability to look at alternative scenarios, some plausible today and some unthinkable tomorrow. This is why the department of Defense InnovationInitiative Announced recently by the secretary of defense hagel is also very important to me. We need to grow innovative leaders. Identify new operational concepts and develop and continue to develop Cutting Edge Technology so that we can continue to evolve with ideas on how to deter our potential adversaries and of course, work with our allies. So now that i covered our priorities, let me shift to the number two topic i wanted to talk about this morning Strategic Deterrence with emphasis on nuclear force. Today as i stated there are multiple forces around the world who are capable of acquiring nuclear forces. President obama stated his goal regarding the Nuclear Weapons and we continue to work towards that goal with the new star treaty. The president s Nuclear Employment strategy released in june of 2013 as well as multiple documents that include review, the 2010 Nuclear Posture we view and the 2014 Nuclear Defense review make it clear that as long as Nuclear Weapons exist, the United States must maintain a strong and credible safe secure and effective Nuclear Deterrent and that we must be prepared for the possibility that deterrents can fail. So 21st century reternts must be tailored to specific adversaries and threats and in an integrative manner so we can predict what deters and what prevents escalation. Given the aspirations of some and the modernization of the Nuclear Capabilities in the world today there is clearly a need for the United States to maintain Nuclear Capability as part of our Strategic Deterrent strategy. But it is also equally clear that while our strategy, while our Strategic Deterrence includes the triad of delivery platforms it is more than that. And all of it must remain credible for decades to come. Our Strategic Deterrent includes the following. A robust and agile preparation. A synthesis that provides critical warning. Assured national and Nuclear Command and control communications.