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
At the foundation for defense and democracy, he addressed the armys recruitment efforts and preparedness to do with existing and emerging Global Security threats. This runs one hour. Welcome to the foundation for defense of democracy, a special welcome to our viewers online and those watching on cspan today. I am the founder and president , and i am pleased to welcome you to our event today, ruthless prioritization, the armys defense strategy. We are honored to host acting defense secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy. As secretary esper and general millie highlighted in the army Posture Hearing earlier this year, the army confronts a Global Security environment that is increasingly competitive, and volatile. We see great power adversaries working overtime to erode americas military power and threaten our interests and those of our allies. In light of these challenges, and to support the National Defense strategy, the army has achieved commendable progress on readiness, but in a vision
Budget, um that we really should go ahead and have a community meeting. So this is a community meeting. We have our commissioners present. Um, one of our commissioners. Was unable to be here. Uh thats commissioner joaquin guerrero, whos out of the country, but we have five other commissioners here. We also have members of the public in the room and we have members of the public on line. And so were going to go ahead and go through our regular, um the items that we were planning to cover today, which is our directors report. We will have a report on the budget and then we will have, um , a presentation on the which is an overview of the homelessness response system just to set the framework for everyone. In the ensuing months, we will we have worked with the commission to set up some presentations for all of you and for the public so that you can start to understand the various interventions and various pieces of our homelessness response system in San Francisco and how they all fit tog
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