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Good morning everybody. Welcome. I am president here at csis, and the reason we are kind of rushing is because we only have an hour. We have a wonderful opportunity to listen to these three secretaries. I will be very short. We always start with a safety announcement. I am responsible for your safety today. They have some guys backstage with guns that will take care of that. If we hear anything, followed by instructions, we will take the exits right behind us, go down to the street Near National geographic, and i will take everyone to see the great new show on the evolution of jane goodall. We...

The 40th chief of the army general james mccarthonville. The secretary and chief and i will have a chat about the defense strategy, the armys modernization priorities, the president s budget request that just came out, as well as the emerging joint war fighting concept and well save about 15 minutes at the end to take questions from the audience here. First i want to throw it over to the secretary and the chief to give a couple opening remarks. Thank you, susan. Its the closest i will get to davos, switzerland. Great opportunity to be here. Thank you. As we discussed in the green room, these a...

Challenges that australia is facing with the wildfires that are impacting australia in such a dramatic and negative way. And they are in our thoughts and in our prayers. As well, we also are focused on the passenger list of the aircraft that was lost in iran two days ago. All of those souls are in our thoughts and in our prayers today. Im john allen. Im the president of the brookings institution. And were very honored to have you with us. Happy new year. Were very pleased this morning to welcome the secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, who is our distinguished guest and our great ally in help...

Yv States Government is a cash flow budget. And the recapitalization of the Nuclear Triade is a capital investment. We are talking 40 and 50year assets. One of the problems we are facing in our budget is it all comes out, it looks like its in the Defense Budget. I call it the pigon. There is this bulk of nuclear phodendization that should be considered capital investment. I think thats important for people to realize when you look at the Defense Budget there is a piece of it that is really something that probably should have been done over the past 30 years that we are trying to do in a hurry....

Russia and china pose in these areas. This is just over two hours good morning. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony from general anthony cotton, commander of u. S. Strategic command or stratcom. And whiting, commander of u. S. Spacecom or spacecom. Gentlemen, thank you for your service to the nation and extend our thanks to the men and women who serve with you. As in the past we have asked the commanders the stratcom and until 2019. Spacecom was a part of Strategic Command. Mr. Reed as spacecom continues as an independent command, its important to identify any gaps or seams that eme...