Charges of adultery, prostitution and providing classified intelligence to taiwan and possibly also, china. But this scandal is only the tip of the iceberg. Because in 2016, the navy remains roiled by the socalled fat leonard scandal in which a number of enior officers have been charged for accepting kickbacks from a private maritime supply contractor. And note this oddity. A possible target of investigators, current director of naval intelligence, Vice Admiral Ted Branch has had his security clearance suspended since late 2013. Question is the navy in crisis, pat buchanan . Pat i would say no, john, but it is under great stress and the reason that we had about a 600ship navy under Ronald Reagan. Its about half that size and after the old cold war, we have the baltic sea and the black sea and the South China Sea and all these places to police by the u. S. Navy and the challenges to it from both china and russia are growing dramatically and secondly, even ith countries like iran, any an
Capabilities to counter here adversarys like china and russia. Joining me is my guest who served as the air force controller before taking his current post. Welcome to the program. Thank you very much. Vago im glad you are here. Many people saw the decision as an indication of shifting priorities from somewhat lower and systems to higher end. What was the logic under that decision . You have got into one of the core strategic considerations. In the course of the fall at the review, we looked whole range of the departments capabilities as we do each year. Processeson wide encompasses the secretary of defense. This year secretary ash carter gave us clear guidance early in the process. We are fighting posture versus presence in the world. He said, focus on the capabilities and the capacity necessary to fight and win wars because by doing that, thats how the United States most effectively deters those conflicts from emerging. The lcs decision really stemmed from that, but it was in a sense
And weve only just begun as a community to grapple with a world in which even nonstate actors will be able to get anything the internet. Second, the sizes of battlefields will expand. The proliferation of precision munitions and the isr network that supports employment are increasing the effective range of military units. Our adversaries will not only be able to get what they can see but also strike u. S. Forces actually over longer and longer distances. Third, concealing military forces will become more difficult. More actors are developing sophisticated capabilities designed to find and target their adversaries. On future battlefields find the enemy will be much easier than hiding from him. I believe these features are the operating environment, ubiquitous munitions, larger engagement zones a more transparent battlefields are clearly apparent today. For instance, the obvious hesitancy on the administrations part to assert freedom of navigation rights in the South China Sea in my mind
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Negotiations is that each country will have to decide based on its own circumstances, its own capabilities, hopefully with as much salutary pressure as possible to do your best but that each country was going to have to make the decision about exactly what to do and how to do it. By the way, that goes for developed countries as well as developing. But even more important for developing countries who were trying to reassure that they can take on the fight for Climate Change without imperilling their own priorities for development, growth and eradication of poverty. So that flexibility is absolutely essential and is really in some sense the core of our approach. Thank you very much, senator kaine. Senator coons. Thank you mr. Stern, for your testimony, leadership, for your hard work and creativity in pursuing such an important global goal. Let me start in some ways where i think senator kaine was pursuing a conversation about some limitations of previous agreements and how this hopedfor