Branch. He is going to deliver his presentation, roll out the navys budget and then well go over some ground rules and take some questions. Good afternoon. As he mentioned im brian lute luther and i want to thank you ft. Opportunity to brief the fiscal year 2018 president budget submission in which i will address our portion of the second step of the department of defenses multiyear effort to restore readiness. The brief will be broken into four parts. The first will briefly review the current and evolving strategic guidance. The second, provides the operational context in which the naval forces operate in todays world. The third ill review historical challenges that underlie the requirement for the current readiness reset. And finally,ly provide a summary by appropriation group. The National Level guidance that provided us the mission sets which drove the operations of the last decade are under review. Earlier this month the department of defense began a defense Strategic Review. This
Unlock one of the st bernadinos attacker phones china appears to have deployed missiles on a disputed island in the South China Sea. The taiwan ease defense minimum see says beijing has placed surface to air missiles on an island. Ownership of the island is disputed by taiwan, vietnam, chinese and the philippines. The president is appealing for calm. Translation i think the South China Sea is a region that everyone pays close attention to, especially on the issue of the dispute over seventy in the South China Sea. It is a tense situation, so we call on all sides to stick to the principle of resolving the dispute over the South China Sea in a peaceful manner. Self restraint is most important chinas foreign minister says the claim is an attempt by the western media to create news stories. Translation i hope that the media everywhere, including those in western countries and australia, will turn your attention more to the lighthouses that we have built on some of the islands that we are u
Turkey and the e. U. And all of that, it might create for lebanon an investment in its stability and its longterm viability because of the importance of energy. Similar to what, how the gulf sort of gets its stability and security. The gulf countries are, you know, strange tribes, but they survived because they have important resources. Other parking lots of the world parts of the world sometimes have that as well. Thats very important for lebanons geostrategic environment. If the east and west agree that this must be a peace offul zone because there are important resources here, now actually moving forward on whats the economic value of this, the first thing is to figure out how to get it to market. The market is effectively europe. The original approach was or the plan was certainly to take it over land to turkey which would mean through syria as long as the war there is raging, you cannot do that. But that is the most Cost Effective i way. And i would indicate that part of the war f