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Those are not easy things. The last thing, theres four parts to the department of defense. There are the four services, the three departments. Army, navy, air force. But theres also the department of defense. Can i take a shot at that, sir . Whoever. Im going to defend my two Service Chiefs here. Their staffs have not grown. Were not growing. The staffs are staying steady. Were doing a 20 reduction in headquarters staff. But, again its what we call the fourth estate. The department of defense agencies. So thats where the growth is coming. Its not in the department. Thank you. Let me go back to...

One of the Top Priorities we have is presence. You wont see a Budget Reduction in our forward presence. Japan, singapore and guam will continue to increase. We are increasing the forces in the european command as we look at how were going to deploy in the future. Strictly for the reason you stated with the instability in the africom and the ucom region. Its not dramatic, but it is there. So the asia pacific wont take a hit from the sequestration and our european presence will not take a hit from sequestration. Those will take place elsewhere . Those forces forward wont be as dramatic. As you k...

Difference in a positive way in the world. He does not believe that we can be a force for good in the world. The president gave a speemp in cairo. Do you remember that speech in went to cairo and apologized for the United States to send a message of uncertainty right from the very beginning we were now going to be a different kind of country. He went to west point and spoke to those wonderful graduates ready to take degrees and commissions and go stand up for us as necessary across the world and said they were not going to have any difficulties because of americas policy of pulling back. As an...

Arctic is in my formal title. We here at csis in our program have a tradition. We host a public conversation just a few days before an Arctic Council add mip steer yal, so we had in 20 is 11 the road to nuke, and in 2013 the road to croon. Today, we have the road to the senator who says iglooit but were off next week. I could think of no more perfect speaker to over reflections just eight days before the United States assumes the Arctic Council chairmanship than a person who has been in the areas participating as part of the u. S. Delegation to the Arctic Council add ministerial to speak with ...

And i would suggest that a year from now, the notion that we would reverse this policy that is allowed more americans to travel to cuba and to help cuban people have access to more technology more capital more values and more contact with americans will seem as absurd as reversing the changes that were made with cuban American Travel a couple of years ago. So again, i applaud you for what youre doing and look forward to working with the administration as this policy unfolds. Thank you, senator menendez. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Let me ask you when a cubanamerican sends or visits their relative...