That youre in. I guess the only other comment i. Would like for you to answer, because id like all my y colleagues to be able to have time to answer questions is the old line about those of us that ignore the lessons of history. General odierno, you made reference to it. When general shymire came beforell this community and said we had amembe hollow army, i know my friend ere senator reed remembers that also and we were able to recover hardwarewise and ships and airplanes and guns and but it took a lot longer than that to restore the readiness and the morale of members of our military and all four of you made reference to it. I would like you to elaborate a little bit on the personnel side br of this because it seems there is always the best and the. Brightest that leave first when ot youre a pilot that cant fly m and on a ship that doesnt leave br port and on so maybe each of you can give a brief comment about great the intangible that makes us the greatest military on earth. Ill begi
Combination of efforts with the local indigenous governments, going to require efforts from training and indigenous force and support from us for a very long period of time. And it is going to require continued assessments and adjustments on how we believe we will continue to support that effort. I think over time if that threat continue, we have to reassess what our strategy is, so thats the hard part about it. This is not a short term problem, it is a longterm problem. It is going to take a longterm dedicated effort to solve it across many different lines of effort, whether it be through diplomatic efforts, combination of joint capability, and enabling indigenous forces and the capability we need to do that. So if youre facing a longterm challenge, and as you look longterm, you may have less tools in the toolbox to deal with it. Thats correct. General dunford. Senator, thanks for that question. Right now, as i mentioned earlier, were taking all the risk, not with our deployed units,
Have the same concern you all do on our war fighting capabilities. When you look at the difficulties in syria, and iraq, and that area, what are the kind of things were not able to do there that you look and you go, if we were doing this, and this, it would really help move the ball forward. Where are you being placed in a tighter spot right now . General odierno, if you give us a start. I would just say it is the first thing is this fight against iraq and syria is a longterm issue. This is not something resolved in weeks and months. Something that will have to be resolved in years. And it is going to require a combination of efforts with the local indigenous governments, going to require efforts from training and indigenous force and support from us for a very long period of time. And it is going to require continued assessments and adjustments on how we believe we will continue to support that effort. I think over time if that threat continue, we have to reassess what our strategy is
The committee will come to order. We have individuals who would like to disrupt the hearing. So i will ask our spectator who is are here to observe the hearing today to observe the courtesy of allowing us to hear. If cause a disruption, which you usually do, we will have to ask you to leave. I dont know what the point is but if you do, i would ask you to for your courtesy to hear what our distinguished panelists have to say who have served our country with honor and distinction. I hope you would respect that. So we will move forward. The Senate Armed Services Committee Meets today. We will receive testimony on the impact of the budget control act of sequestration on u. S. National security. I am grateful to our witnesses not onlt for appearing before us today, but also for their many decades of distinguished service to our country in uniform. I also appreciate their sincere and ernest attempts over many years to warn the congress and the American People of what is happening to our Arme