To provide the committee further assistance. Thank you very much. At after new chairman mccain, chairman graham, Ranking Member killer brand and members of the personnel subcommittee. It is a privilege to appear before you today at this initial hearing on Defense Health care reform and i hope my participation in todays hearing will be of assistance to you in the Defense Department as you seek to ensure the military Health System is strength in and is able to provide optimal support to those who wear the cloth of this nation, their families and those who are in the retirement benefit due to their careers service. I believe im a framework for reform is to begin with an assessment of what is working and not working. But the environmental conditions are like me to look like in the future, including the go to work capabilities and needs than what approach will likely ensure success in the future. For my nearly 20 years a Privilege Service at the site of dod and now va, this worm and up unti
Salami slicing. Very small increments advancing interests by building up islands, adding another weapons system, making small moves, none of which is egregious enough tow cause the United States to use massive hard power but would we slowly tip the balance in chinas favor. We dont have a strategy to counter that. Deterre our hard power capability, the weapons you have described, this is a deterrent to world war iii, not to intelligent gradualism. We need a better policy. From florida, independent line, cliff for our guest robert daly, good morning. Good morning. Good conversation. Me e you have alreadystng to taken s steam out of a comment that i was going to make, but i will i make it anyway so we can reiterate. Im not probably going to be as friendly and optimistic as the answer has been given. Ussian im referring to the russian situation when they were doing their thing with georgia, uzbekistan and we were passive and we o watched and they watch how we react or no reaction. I, for o
Nation, their families and those who earned a retirement benefit due to their career of service. I believe any framework for reform needs to begin with an assessment of whats working and not working, what the environmental conditions are likely to look like in the future including the go to work the capabilities and needs and what approach will likely insure success in the future. For my nearly 20 years of Privileged Service at the side of d. O. D. And now v. A. I believe there are four fundamental questions worthy of explosions. First, does dodd have the most effective efficient Management Structure and tools to deliver on the needs . And is the investment in the direct care system being optimized . Theres a great deal of experience inherent in the footprint and the personnel required to establish the foot print. Theres great efficiency to be gained when sizing a system, hen making make vs. Buy decisions and croort cooperating appropriately and leasing when the leasing is broached. I
So i always talk to reporters why are you now saying somethingses that youre saying i said for months because aye been talking about real ideas and they dont cover them. I give speeches about educationing and they ignore it. I give speeches about health care and they ignore it, but you talk about it you talk about anything that has nothing to do with that, and they jump all over it. It leads the newscast. What a sad indictment on the state of the political debate in this country today. [applause] so from time to time i read the main tweet, but i never stop talking about the ideas you deserve to have. Theyre on my website go on it now. Not now, when youre done, marco rubio. Com and youll see we have a real plan to fix our tax code. We have a real plan to roll back regulation. We have a real plan to save Social Security and medicare. We have a real plan to balance our budget one of the most embarrassing moments in the last debate is when donald trump was asked about the debt and he said
Untouched by our counterterrorism effort. So in the future just recognize that in order to restore deterrence, were going to have to show capability, capacity, and resolve. Recognize this is an International Arms control agreement and not a very good one although there are some advantages, recognize the advantages as well. But its not a Friendship Treaty, and some people have tried to make it into a Friendship Treaty say its worthless. As a Friendship Treaty it would be worthless but its an arms control agreement that fell short of a lot of hopes but its not completely without some merit. We have allies out there. We have allies who want to rally to our side. I dont forget sitting with the king of jordan one day. We were working on his syrian refugee problem and i have seen refugees all around the world from the Southeast Asia to africa to the dalmatian coast. I have never seen i have been up in the refugee camps. I have never seen refugees as traumatized as those coming out of syria.