For defense of democracies about the armys moderation and readiness efforts. This is about an hour. Well, welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies, a special welcome to viewers online and those watching on cspan today. Im cliff may, im the founder and president of fdd, and im pleased to welcome you to the event, ruthless prioritization, the arms realization of the National Defense strategy. Were honored to host acting secretary the arm ryan d. Mccarthy. Thank you for coming together. As secretary jasper and millihighlighted earlier this year, the area confronts a Global Security environment that is increasingly competitive and volatile. We see great adversaries working overtime to erode americas military power in order to threaten our interests and those who are our allies. In the light of these challenges and to support the National Defense strategy, the army has achieved tremendous progress on modernization and reform over the last couple of years. But the threats remain
It was created in 2015 in accordance with the act in 2015 as amended. Our mandate is to advise the secretary of defense on investigation, prosecution of allegations of Sexual Assault and other Sexual Misconduct involving members of the armed forces. Please note that todays meeting is being transcribed. A complete written transcribe will be posted on the website. Todays meeting will begin with the dac ipads fiscal 2018 for acquittal rates of Sexual Assault in the military based on case documents from all military Sexual Assault cases closed during the fiscal year. Next, staff director will provide an overview of the Draft Department of defense report on allegations of misconstruct. This draft report was submitted to the dac ipad in fulfillment of the Defense Authorization act for fiscal year 2019. Following the overview of the report, Service Representatives involved in the report, drafting and Data Collection will appear before the committee to answer questions about the data, and the
Importance today. Yeah. So the mexican expedition and the border itself really needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution, and thats a conflict that begins in 1910 with the ouster of the longstanding dictator diaz who is ousted by morero and hes killed soon afterwards and after hes killed several revolutionary faxes emerge from that and one of the faxes is under veentsia carranza and one of the people involved with that is franz copancho villa. Carranza and his constitutionalists have become successful. They managed a large part of the country and at this point of success pancho villa breaks with the constitutionalists and hes successful militarily. He goes from having an army thats about 30,000 to 50,000 people operating mostly in the north of mexico, mostly in the chihuahua to having about 5,001 troops under his command and its sort of a low point in his military career that he decides to start attacking americans at the border. He does this for a couple of diffe
Activeization of the defense strategy. As highlighted earlier this year, the army confront environments that are increasingly competitive and volatile. They threaten our interests and those of our allies. In light of these, the army has achieved commendable progress on readiness and form over last couple of years, but the threat remains significant in the budget remains finite. Theres much more work to the and we are ready to provide a class research. As many of you in the audience exclusively focused on National Security and foreign policy. Except nopartisan and funds. This seeks to remote on a bipartisan basis and understanding National Security strategies and a range of other government capabilities max 8, itso secure citizens, allies and reserving piece. Experts were closely on a number and financial power and center on Cyber Technology innovation with the goal of integrating all tools of American Power to achieve Better Outcomes for america than and for our allies. [inaudible] , i
It is my pleasure and my honor to introduce our keynote speaker who is the assistant secretary of the army. He assumed his position following confirmation by the u. S. Senate in mid january of this year. His responsibilities include supervising Manpower Personnel and reserve Component Affairs to the department of the army and is the principal advisor of the policy of human resources, training, readiness, military health sales, equal opportunity in marketing among others which makes it striking that he finds time in his schedule to come talk with us today and we are grateful for that. Dr. Wardynski is a graduate of the Us Military Academy and hold same masters of Public Policy and a phd in policy analysis. During his 30 year career he served as a special weapons officer within the United States and in korea. He spent 10 years as an associate member of economics where he was also the director of the us armies office of economic and Manpower Analysis advising Senior Leaders on officer ret