Topics include readiness, modernization and how to meet the demand of the future. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Good morning. Today to receive testimony on the plans and programs of the department of the navy, fiscal year 2018. I want to thank each of our witnesses for their distinguished service to the nation as well as the sailors, marines and civilians they lead, who are serving around the world today. In recent months our nations senior civilian defense and military leaders have testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. Theyve reported shortfalls in readiness that our military advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new, modern capabilities. As secretary mattis testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military faces is right here in washington, because uncertainty, continuing resolution, arbitrary and inadequate caps on defense spending, more years of the budget control act and the t
Todays panels and discussions will bring together policy makers affiliated with both parties to reestablish the importance of bipartisan thinking in washington when it comes to National Security and foreign policy. As all of you know, the United States is constantly under threat from adversaries abroad. A desperate dictator in north korea continues to defy the International Community by firing off Ballistic Missiles and brutalizing civilians including americans, and now possibly preparing another provocative nuclear test. A bloody civil war rages in syria, having already taken the lives of almost half a Million People and displacing millions more. China is militarizing islands and threatening its neighbors and russia. In russia, it is fomenting instability through cyberattacks and military incursions. A tie ran cal regime in teheran Funds International terrorists, and they continue to spread an ideology based on death and destruction. Each day it becomes clearer and clearer that the ch
Topics include readiness, modernization and how to meet the demand of the future. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Good morning. Today to receive testimony on the plans and programs of the department of the navy, fiscal year 2018. I want to thank each of our witnesses for their distinguished service to the nation as well as the sailors, marines and civilians they lead, who are serving around the world today. In recent months our nations senior civilian defense and military leaders have testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. Theyve reported shortfalls in readiness that our military advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new, modern capabilities. As secretary mattis testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military faces is right here in washington, because uncertainty, continuing resolution, arbitrary and inadequate caps on defense spending, more years of the budget control act and the t
Known as jack, author of the book Richard Nixon, a life. At the very end of your book in the footnotes, the source notes, you say this. He hoped that billy graham or Norman Vincent peele would handle the prayers this is not his funeral and doesnt want a catholic or jew to participate. this comes from a hold them in comments. What was that all about . John this was at his funeral. A californiaom background. When he was growing up, it was the outback. It was orange groves and hills and small towns in between. He grew up with a certain provincial bigotry. I think he got some of that from his father, who was an unlearned man. And over the years nixon learned , to deal with it because he had to. Nixon could do almost anything because he had to. So he had kissinger and others who were jewish, but in private, against his enemies who happened to be jewish, he could be very ugly. I think this was sort of a blanket statement. Holdeman had his own biases, but perhaps he took it down a little more
Known as jack, author of the book Richard Nixon, a life. At the very end of your book in the footnotes, the source notes, you say this. He hoped that billy graham or Norman Vincent peele would handle the prayers this is not his funeral and doesnt want a catholic or jew to participate. this comes from a hold them in comments. What was that all about . John this was at his funeral. A californiaom background. When he was growing up, it was the outback. It was orange groves and hills and small towns in between. He grew up with a certain provincial bigotry. I think he got some of that from his father, who was an unlearned man. And over the years nixon learned , to deal with it because he had to. Nixon could do almost anything because he had to. So he had kissinger and others who were jewish, but in private, against his enemies who happened to be jewish, he could be very ugly. I think this was sort of a blanket statement. Holdeman had his own biases, but perhaps he took it down a little more