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Happy thanksgiving weekend. Welcome to defense news. Im vago muradian. What are the best policy options the United States as china continues to flex its military clout . C and political secretary defense chuck hagels resignation. The initiative will help had United States retain its military superiority despite easilyations using available commercial technologies to counter u. S. Capabilities. A multifaceted approach that will use intensive war gaming to identify future capabilities and technologies that u. S. Forces will need to off set gains by adversaries. Led to ther development of leadahe...

Permeate over time if we dont do something about it now. So it doesnt help us to just kind of wait to do something. Now, when i describe, you know, in what i recommended about, you know the combination of elements of National Power i mean, you just look at the Information Campaign that is being waged not by just isis, but by alqaeda writ large and the way that theyre able to do it the sophistication that theyre able to do it, i mean, that campaign alone the military has some little bits and pieces of trying to counter that on a tactical battlefield, but there has to be a broader imagination th...

But nevertheless theres huge opportunities there. I will be another example where engagement by the United States and the region has been a spectacular success. And that is colombia, i dont know what they call in english actually, company plan i guess. [laughter] i think thats a. [laughter] sometimes my mind switches and i apologize. This was the plan to deal with the dramatic social turmoil in columbia with the drug cartel and the violence was significant and the Previous Administration they made a significant effort to provide Technical Support military support economic support, the presiden...

So the comebination of intelligence and law enforcemented is a big deal. We have to make sure that there are good mechanisms in place. If we know somebody is getting on a plane out of liguardia or dulles to fly over to ankora we need to recognize we know who they are, theyre being tracked and have the right visas. And turkey needs to know what theyre doing over there. Weve got to know why are you going there . Are you part of a Nongovernmental Organization . Are you part of a private organization . Or are you going e going there for some other ill gotten game. Let me ask this. Weve seen whats ...

Learned a really ugly lesson in over 10 years ago now. So you have to be able to do that. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, i yield back. Mr. Cooper. Hes not here. Ms. Graham. First, thank you very much for being here this morning. Detached a bit on other terrorist groups in the region. Could you please provide an update on hezbollah . Thank you. You guys can talk. I mean hezbollah is an iranian backed group. They are, i believe were still designating them as a terrorist organization, our state department. Hezbollah is deeply involved in syria. They are fighting in syria members of hezbollah are fighti...