CSPAN3 Defense Department Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Briefing February 10, 2016
Likely drive the focus of our planning, programming and budgeting processes. The first two challenges were considered to be the most significant shift in the future security environment and that is to return to an era of great power competition. Today we are faced by a resurgent russia and rising china. Both are nuclear powers. Both are fielding advanced capabilities at a rapid rate. Both are permanent members of the u. N. Security council and both take issue with some aspects of the principled International Order that has preserved stability and enabled the peaceful pursuit of prosperity for ...