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Goldwater nichols, the roles and chairmans of the joint chiefs of staff, and the commanders. This morning, we seek to understand how Goldwater Nichols has impacted the effectiveness of u. S. Military operations, and what reforms may be necessary. We are pleased to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses, who will offer insights from their many years of experience and distinguished service. General norton schwartz, president and ceo of Business Executives for National Security. Admiral james, former european commander and u. S. Southern command or. Currently the dean of the Fletcher School...

Functional teams to achieve efficiencies and provide senior civilian and military leaders more timely recommendations. In previous hearings, our witnesses have observed better capitalizing on the gains achieved through those improvements may require significant changes to enter Agency National security structure and processes, as well as this was made by jim walker, the godfather, if you will, of the Goldwater Nichols. No matter how you transform the defense department, it is quite broken. And the problems that confront this nation require an interagency response. Being able to executed a Nati...

Say what hes told me and general dunford, certainly for the military campaign, which is that he wants us to continue to come to him with proposals for ways that we can strengthen the campaign consistent with our overall strategic approach. Sec. Fallon thank you. The United States has been leading the Coalition Since last year against isildaesh. And we are now fully part of that by our extending our operations to syria as well as iraq. Secretary carter has asked other countries, including the United Kingdom, what more they can contribute to the campaign as we move to this new focus on degrading...

The end of the war. The summer of 1978 to the summer of 1971. The experience stuck with me iss because of anything experienced as a combat platoon leader, but what i saw in terms of the decay and deterioration of the army in which i was serving. Oft gave me an appreciation the terrible effects of war. What was your career like . How long were you in the army . 23 years. I served until 1992. It was a year in vietnam early on. They were mypart, experiences of a serving officer at the latter part of the cold war. We thought we existed to be prepared to fight world war iii and that our readiness t...

Here on cspan, we bring you more live coverage of the state of the state live from michigan. Members of the house and senate gather for the state of the state from republican governor rick snyder, who was sworn into office three years ago. Just a reminder as we wait for his speech to begin, we will re air some of the state of the state speeches we have covered in the past couple of days. Night, beginning on c span two, among the speeches you will hear, colorado, idaho, and indiana. That all gets underway tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern. Tonight, waiting to hear from Governor Snyder live from la...