Adding this modernization and reform. This is an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome to the National Press club. Worlds leading organization for journalists. My name is Michael Friedman and i am the 113th president of the National Press club. Im a journalist in residence at university of maryland grover. An executive producer of the public broadcasting series the report. The an Excellent Program ahead. We invite you to listen watch or follow along on twitter using the mpc life. For cspan and public radio viewers andd listeners, pleasee aware that in the audience today, members of the general public so any clause or reaction you mean here, is not necessarily from the working press. Lets begin by introducing our head table. We ask thatuc you please hold yr applause until all the head table guess have been announced. Beginning to my far left, john oshea, col. U. S. Army retired, and number of American Legion post 20 which is based here at the National Press club. Kevin, captain u. S. Navy,
Cavoli, the Deputy Director at the Atlantic Councils center for strategy and security. And Lieutenant General commander of land command. And our panel will be led and moderated by patrick tucker, defense ones Technology Editor. Thank you all. [ applause ] thank you all so much for joining us today. Im Technology Editor at defense one. Im pleased to have this Exceptional Panel here to discuss the future of the United States army in the european theater and ive been covering different aspects of Army Activity in europe for quite some time and its a question, and ill go to you, and i wonder if you can talk to me a little bit about the current status and your feelings about the militarytomilitary relationship with turkey. How is that right now and how quickly is that changing . I maintain strong relations with my counterparts in turkey on within the parameters of u. S. Policy at any given time. We spend time going back and forth and visiting each other. We exchange United States. We had th
Invite our to distant risk an moderator to take a seat. While they assembled, the tenant general christopher the commanding general of the u. S. Army europe. The Deputy Director for the Transatlantic Security Initiative at the atlantic ,ouncil center for strategic strategy and security and Lieutenant General thompson landnder of nato allied command. Our panel will be moderated by defense ones technology editor. Thank you all. [applause] all right. All so much for joining us today and im pact talker. To discuss the future of the United States army an incredible important european theater and i have been covering Different Army activity in europe for some time. And there is one question that it is usually sort of a perfunctory question, rarely is there an opportunity for news in it. This year that is not the case. I will go to you, j. P. As well as you, chris. I wonder if you can talk a little bit about the current status and your feelings about the military to military relationship with
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Our views online and those watching on cspan today. Im the founder and president of fdd and im a pleased to welcou to our event today, ruthless prioritization, the armys realization of the National Defense strategy. We are honored today to host acting secretary of the army ryan mccarthy. Thank you so much for coming again. Working overtime to the road americas military power, to threaten our interests and those who are our allies. In the light of these challenges and to support the National Defense strategy the army has achieved commendable progress on readiness, minimization and reform over the last couple years but the threats remain significant and the budgets remain finite. There is much more work to do, and we are ready to reform this effort. As many of you in our audience know we are focused exclusively on National Security and foreign policy. We are nonpartisan and accept no funds from foreign governments, never have and never will. This event is hosted by ftd center on military