Overall blackhawk fleet. And we would slow the modernization of the fleet by 5 to 10 new blackhawks a year. Together those would pay for the option. There are disadvantages to this without question, but we felt they were outweighed by the advantages of keeping some apaches in the guard. I should say while we spent time on the costs and theyre important, there are other important factors. I have mentioned two. Wartime capacity and surge capability. Ill mention one other one. Keeping apaches in the guard helps integrate the regular army and the guard, and thats one of the commissions overarching goals. Under the commissions proposal, the apaches in the guard, there would be one more area where the regular army and the guard could train together in peacetime and if necessary, fight together in war. That completes the very brief discussion of the apache transfers, more details, of course in the report and glad to take questions when that time comes. Mr. Chairman. Thank you, secretary. Last
Sheer, whos our assistant secretary of defense for east asia in the pacific. You know that david was had come back from hanoi to do this job. He was our u. S. Ambassador there. David is an expert on china and Southeast Asia. I think for many of us who are sort of in the trenches every day on these issues, couldnt think of a better person for the pentagon to put into this role. Next to him is one of the top Southeast Asiaenists in the United States, and he also is singapores ambassador to the United States. Aspoke. He was most recently singapores ambassador to indonesia. He was in the past has been singapores ambassador also to australia. And to quaul la lumpur and has a long history in Singapore Foreign affairs working on asiarelated affairs. And finally, a good friend and a real hero of Southeast Asia and asian policy in the senate is chris bros. He works with senator mccain in senator mccains office. Previous before that he was senior staffer in the Senate Armed Services committee. A
Leader development. You mentioned that is one of the most important components. [laughter] leader development. S. Leader development for you. [laughter] and why was that . And we also looking at the program, professional military education that occurs . Currently having just gone through this and other active officers attend resident courses. Could this also provide cost savings by integrating the dl forces to the active component to get cost savings for them and integrate the training that we achieve . Did you understand the question . [laughter] i did not get the actual. Sounded like the yankees fan. Of hate. Next question. Im just kidding. Using captains career fuller says an example theyre is a audio component and a resident component. Your question was, could we maximize opportunity for integration and collaboration, perhaps if we had guardsmen, perhaps more attending residence and also some active component experience a learning. And all of those courses throughout our pnc. Yap.
Rebuild, its always your prerogative to destroy. But i do think we ought to be paying attention to how that issue gets resolve ised because resolved because people will be brokering for power positions in the process of rebuilding, and its a new way to establish dominance. And perhaps through the ngoization of the area to undermine popular struggles for political selfdetermination. In the corner over here. And then well come back. Thank you very much for being here. I wanted to explore a little bit your discussion of working in solidarity with palestinians and, in fact, other oppressed peoples. From where you stand. As a, um, half jewish women with a palestinianamerican daughter who lived in palestine for several years but now living here in the United States, how does one do that with integrity . Because, you know, as someone whos an activist, as a writer, im also aware of this concept and have, in fact, been told, well, you must work in your community. What does that mean to you . Ho
Youll notice when the third panelist pops up, hes kind of a big personality. Were going to start with my colleague, David Inserra who is a Research Associate specifically tasked with doing all of the Homeland Security issues for heritage. He specializes in cyber and immigration issues. But hes responsible for all of it. He works for me and gets to do all the work. I get to take the bows. He will be followed by adam sacks. Adam is the founder of the and president of tourism economics, which is dedicated to analyticallybased consulting for the tourism sector. He is an expert and a consultant dealing with hard numbers of the costs and benefits, and in some cases liabilities of certain programs, and how they affect that very large economic sector to us, which is the tourism sector. And then the missing third panelist is stewart baker. Stewart is a partner with stepto and johnson. But he was the First Assistant secretary of the department of Homeland Security for policy. And hes the guy who