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Good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets this morning to review the reduction in cost of living adjustments, the colas, for working age military retirees that was enacted as part of the bipartisan budget act of 2013. We welcome today the acting deputy secretary of defense, ms. Christine fox, and vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral sandy winnefeld. And i will introduce the second panel of outside witnesses after we hear from secretary fox and admiral winnefeld. The bipartisan budget act adopted in december included a provision that reduced the cola for working age military r...

With this. We could claim they were a deterrent against the soviet union, but remember what i said about knowing whether a deterrent is working or not. It was a proposition that it was working. But we werent sure. There was also the realization as we understood sort of the texture of deterrence that our claims for extended deterrence, that we could actually extend the Nuclear Umbrella to nato, to the european states, to northeast asia, to japan and south korea. And, by the way, the philippines and australia eventually. That was the proposition. But that other word comes in here, whats the cred...

We find ourselves in the 90s in a whole new world. The decline of Nuclear Weapons. We have an arms control treaty, start one at the very beginning of the decade. We have International Structure which is no longer why polar. It could be called unipolar. We have globalization is the recent pieces to it but it appears to be part of a fundamental new world order. I love that phrase. It has the imagery of military force that still there but not Nuclear Weapons. Economic measures of power were going to be so much more important. There was a prediction of the decline of the nationstate in the concept...

During the 90s and i faced that in 2002, 2003, and we know the importance of the independence of verification. You had it in bilateral agreements, verification with russia and thats long tradition. Thats one thing. But multilateral inspections are needed in cases like iran and like iraq. And in that for that you need impartial independent Civil Servants that are not subject to any corruption, that will not go to do the work with any of the intelligence agencies that are crawling all over the place. So i would like to ask you your view about the importance of independent verification as a third...

The Strategic Nuclear level, they would use Tactical Nuclear weapons in a mode designed to limit Collateral Damage and deescalate the crisis by demonstrating their seriousess, seriousness, indeed a much better work. Your close personal friend has always argued that a counterforce attack on the United States would be responded to by counterforce attack from the United States. So therein he never accepted the idea that their empty silos would now be attacked by us. He accepted that was the only option. I only address this in the sense of iran and israel. Israel has a very suspect capability to d...