Appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face capability shortfalls. I just returned from the security conference with several others here at th
And i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face
Cal the story is what can make a difference. The fall of the berlin wall just over 30 years ago came amid sweeping changes that would end the cold war and see the downfall of corrupt of solitary and regimes across the east. But 3 decades on the prodemocracy optimism of those days has turned sour then a phobia and nationalism are on the rise lets go corruption is no going away in the 2nd of 2 special reports weve been told kariya remain here and watch for the lessons of history havent. Peace in europe 30 years after the end of the continental. Usa with rising ultranationalist and and struggling to find answers to hatred and corruption. The euphoria that swept the continent 30 years ago in the wake of the fall of the bird in war seems like a distant dream. Within 2 months communist dictatorships from the baltic to the black sea where i stood there and curtin was gone and europe appeared to be on the brink of a brighter future. But these hopes were dashed perhaps nowhere more so than bulg
Technology a vietnam and the air power history journal and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft here earned his ph. D. From Kansas State University with his dissertation the calls of the lightweight fighter 1964 to 1991 and ladies and gentlemen please help me in welcoming doctor michael handguns. applause all right. Ill try not to keep you from the reception, i did want to start off by talking about something that happened a year ago. There was an air force f15 flying overseer yeah and this is not what you expected to hear in a world war i lecture but stay with me, he shoots down an iranian drone. A uav, not quite two weeks later a second almost identical event ppened. I dont know about you but my twitter exploded. People started talking online, blogs are being written, people are arguing, and what they are arguing about is does shooting down that drone count as a kill . Is that something
Airmen behind the romanticized facades and described how legendary pilots like Eddie Rickenbacker influenced movies, comics and popular culture. Held by the National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, this is close to an hour. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my true pleasure to introduce the last speaker for this afternoon. That is dr. Michael hankins. He is the assistant professor of strategy at the United States air forces eschool of graduate professional military education where he directs courses on air power history and national strategy. He recently published an article, the teaball solution the evolution of air combat technology in vietnam, 1968 to 1972 in the air power history journal and is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between pilot culture and the Technological Development of military aircraft. He earned his ph. D. From Kansas State University with his dissertation, the cult of the lightweight fighter, culture and technology in t