You are welcome to submit rookings. Eduevents b email address. With apologies that we may not get to all of them. Without further ado, let me hand the baton to john allen to introduce the secretary. Thank you. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is john allen and im the president of the Brookings Institution and it is my great privilege to welcome you all to todays event featuring our honored guest, the u. S. Secretary of defense, dr. Mark esper. Secretary esper was the 27th secretary of defense. He had served as the acting secretary in june and july of that year also served as secretary of the army to the summer of 2019. Secretary esper is no stranger to service. He is a west point graduate and upon graduation was in the infantry. Upon completion of ranger training, he served in the 101st Airborne Division and participated in the 1991 gulf war with the cherished screaming angles. Eagles. He retired from the u. S. Army in on7 after spending 10 years active duty. For much of the
It is hosted by the brookings institution, and this runs one hour. Good morning, everyone. Today we are honored to host who will offer some remarks on how covid19 is affecting the American Armed forces and anything else that he would like to begin with. Then i will ask him some questions come and then we will hear from you about your questions. Apologies that we may not get to all of your questions, but we willfurther ado, start the program. Good morning. My name is john allen noon john allen. It is my privilege to welcome you all featuring our honored guest, mark esper. As secretary was sworn in the 20 seventh secretary of defense on 20 through july 2019, and it he has served in june and july of that year. He also served as the secretary of the army from 20 november 2017 to the summer of 2019. Secretary esper is no stranger to service. He is a 19 86 west point graduate. He was commissioned into the , and upon completion of ranger training, he served in the Airborne Division and partic
Chairman inhofe our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving the posture statements. We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combata
Appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face capability shortfalls. I just returned from the security conference with several others here at th
We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and th