Admiral James Stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So from the nato perspective i was at the dental admiral who became the supreme a
Ten admirals and the voyage of character, which was published late last year. Admiral james stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So
Tonight at eight eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Standard john cotton one members of the bridge about buying g5 equipment from the Chinese Company while way. The arkansas republican join former House Intelligence Committee chair mike rogers and retired Brigadier General Robert Spaulding who predecease her on the National Security council under the trump administration. They answered questions from the British Defense subcommittee on china for about two hours. Order, order. Welcome to this Defense Select Committee hearing to consider the International Response to the uk government decision to allow while we to continue to operate its 5g network and implications of the gibbous decision for information sharing across the alliance. Also to discuss International Ambitions and the role of 5g technology and within this specifically look at Cyber Attacks and the distal silk road. Our session date is divided into two parts and id like to welcome senator tom cotton joining us for part on
Largest number of new cases in just one day and mexico are also contributing to those high numbers Mexican Health authorities reported a daily record spike of more than 2973 infections on thursday alone while argentina pushed its critical deadline for its 65000000000 dollar debt latin americas 3rd largest economy agreed to continue talks with their creditors through june 2nd and in a rare move china drop its g. D. P. Target for 2020 the worlds 2nd largest economy made the decision this was due to uncertainties over the coronavirus chinas economy contracted by 6. 8 percent in the 1st quarter well it was as its 1st decline in more than 4 decades and in a Virtual Meeting the World Health Organization said its working nonstop since the start of covert 19 to really help coordinate a response. Do you miss the beginning of the pandemic doubloon john howards world good day and night to coordinate the Global Response also the levels of the organization we are today did the plan earlier this mon
Will come to the hearing to have differences with. I think that will make up the American Public on the reliance of supply chain of Critical Materials do you consider that our response to the decision to allow huawai with a 5g network that theri government decision crosses the alliance. And with and this specifically looking at cyberattacks. We are divided into two parts really want to be dependent on the Chinese Government when everything goes wrong my argument is probab that the same and then Brigadier General problem that you have another democracies is that intense would join us for part number interest in the telecom two. Thank you very much for your time today your ex military the house of representatives before being elected senator industry dont want to see change and quite frankly they but the commentator on Us Foreign Affairs and are not capable to deploy that particularly the us and china urelationship and you and i have known each other for many type of network that we try