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Republican side concerning the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and in this case it is iran. No shortage of distrust in that room. Reporter yes, del. Both Global Concerns were one was the Ballistic Missiles and the nuclear threat. So very clearly this is more about iran than even isis right now. Its almost like isis has a fate with its defeat and the question is what happens when it is over. There doesnt seem to be any testimony that isil will not be defeated. Thats pretty much again a given at this point. You heard even general dempsey say that. The other number of 20,000 shia militia troops with only 3,000 Iraqi Security forces. From a military perspective thats not a partnership. Thats clearly the iranians in control of the situation. And following that do the shia allow the sunnis back into their homes. So they a ....
Into harms way without necessary readiness. Im having a very difficult time in light of the six months that weve been at war in iraq and syria against isis and in light of the president s authorization for the yoous of military force or aumf that is now before congress for this krgsz. Im having a very hard time understanding what the strategy is. And i want to make sure that, as my colleagues have said, that we fund our military well beyond the budget caps in the sequester levels. I agree with them there. I think perhaps more importantly, that we have the necessary strategy in place. Could you answer the strategy question for me . Certainly. First of all, strategy is does take in addition to geographic perspective, a multiyear commitment. Which is why annual budgetary turmoil isnt consistent with our strategy in taking a strategic view. With respect to the strategy against isil, the first thing id say is wed not only defeat isil, we need to defeat them in a lasting manner. We can defee ....
And that also and this is very important and this gets back to the earlier discussion of sequester if its in the base budget, it is the base upon which we build our future budgets, and we need stability. We need a horizon so that we know what our budget is going to be not only this year but in years to come. Otherwise, we cant spend it efficiently, and we cant spend it strategically. We need that kind of horizon and sequester is what robs us of that, and thats why its bad in a manage yearal sense for anybody who has their budget sequestered. General dempsey, do you want to speak to that and perhaps its affect on readiness . As you know, weve been trying to dig out of a readiness hole. We said three or four years ago if the wars in iraq and afghanistan ended then it would take us three or four years to recover our readiness because we were ready for ten years for a particular kind ever conflict, which you know better than most. And so we had to kind of recapture our credentials for othe ....
Deeper impact because you have to get the money where you have to get it. You cant shed it quickliness. You cant shed excess infrastructure quickly enough. You cant terminate contracts because of the penalties involved. Even if youre taking more than you should out of readiness. I think readiness suffers more than you think. Thank you. Mr. Secretary, i share in the terms of my colleagues and the other o if i believes in the detriments of sequestration. But im also skbresed in efficient ways. Specifically, im thinking about the fact that we really dont know the kind of money that we are spending when it comes to service contractors. There is still yet to be enterprise. I believe the goal was to have 95 compliance by 2018. I dont think youre probably going to make that goal. So despite the numerous commitments on a senior level dod officials can you tell me when you will restart work on the ecmra . When youre going to use accepted army methodology . And when will you be insisting on comp ....