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Hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational reform. While a lot has been done, however, a lot more needs to be done. The world around us is simply...

A look now at the future of Missile Defense. The center for strategic and International Studies hosted a discussion recently with former defense officials and Global Security experts. Panelists talked about the challenges of Strategic Missile defense, the threats posed by north korea, iran, china and russia. Former defense undersecretary for policy, james miller moderated this event. Its about 90 minutes. Ready to go, okay, good morning, everybody. Thanks for being here today. Im jim miller. President of the adaptive strategies. I have had involvement with Missile Defense over a number of deca...

Including as undersecretary of defense in the Obama Administration. We have a great panel here today. You have already met tom karako, senior fellow here in the international program, director of the Missile Defense program and tom will talk about in particular his report Missile Defense, 2020, next steps for defending the homeland. Dr. Laura grego, thank you for being here as well. Laura is a Senior Scientist in the Global Security program for the union of concerned scientists. And also has a recent report entitled shielded from oversight, the disastrous u. S. Approach to strategic Missile De...

[inaudible] this breathing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with opening comments with both gentlemen and the will open the 44 questions. Good morning, good afternoon. It is good to see you all. Im not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise it is there for reference in case i have to go to a. We walked your presentation of the budget here between the general and myself we will try to answer questions as best we can. Today president johnson to congress his proposed budget requests. What will do is outline the request for the Defense Department. And...

[inaudible] this breathing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with opening comments with both gentlemen and the will open the 44 questions. Good morning, good afternoon. It is good to see you all. Im not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise it is there for reference in case i have to go to a. We walked your presentation of the budget here between the general and myself we will try to answer questions as best we can. Today president johnson to congress his proposed budget requests. What will do is outline the request for the Defense Department. And...