what the president calls war games. they go under the official title joint military exercises. >> well, joint and combined military exercises are readiness e to practics, our techniques, our strategy, our interoperability everywhere, all the time. these go on around the globe. gratuitous decisions like this have a tendency to rattle allies and convince both them and our versaries that we're not really serious about defending our interests in that region. there's more than a little consternation in south korea, in tokyo, in taiwan, the philippines, and even vietnam, to say nothing of the e that it's probably caused in t pentagon. i'm trying to think of how many antacids secretary mattis has been taking. there's something else too. it's gratuitous. the decision was gratuitous. we got nothing in return, and the problem with that is when you have decisions like that, that are made without consultation and consideration,