Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats from the marine corps archives. And signed in big letters, harry truman. The key west conference pulled it all back. There was a picture of truman with a rifle with the marines looking around. Pull the trigger. And then theres one of the most probably the most critical document in marine corps history. Thats an apology by the president of the United States to the marine corps for his remarks. Now where have you ever seen Something Like that . Can you imagine truman gritting his teeth while writing that . He does put that big harry truman on the back of it. General cates was Second Division guy, fourth brigade, and he belawood, took with about 16 marines and fought through. After it quieted down, thank you, mccar thur, and using the marines that way and once the public bought into that, this receded. Of course, years later, i mean its still a good competition between the army, navy, marines, et cetera, but, you know, that
The 40th chief of the army general james mccarthonville. The secretary and chief and i will have a chat about the defense strategy, the armys modernization priorities, the president s budget request that just came out, as well as the emerging joint war fighting concept and well save about 15 minutes at the end to take questions from the audience here. First i want to throw it over to the secretary and the chief to give a couple opening remarks. Thank you, susan. Its the closest i will get to davos, switzerland. Great opportunity to be here. Thank you. As we discussed in the green room, these are wonderful opportunities for us to try to talk about how were trying to transform the army. Were in year three of a very aggressive effort of transforming the army in not only how we train the force, how we modernize and ultimately help our people reach their maximum potential. As i emphasized the third year of a massive restructuring like weve not seen in over 40 years in the army with creating
Discussing Current Operations and modern efforts. This is close to an hour. Welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. New at my virtual fireside, and improved, we are graced with the presence of Ryan Mccarthy and 40th chief of staff. Thank you both so much for being with us today. First i want to throw it over to the secretary and the chief for opening remarks. This is the closest i will get to switzerland. A great opportunity to be here. As we discussed in the green room, these are wonderful opportunities for us to talk about how we will transform the army. Effort, notssive only in how we train and modernize, helping our people reach their maximum potential. The third year of a massive , creating an organization to modernize the. Orce readiness, modernization and reform as a tool to help us evolve. Look over three years ago, two brigades. Very proud of that, but one of the things that we recognize with all the changes that we face in the world, is something that you will see
Brandon i would love to be able to answer that question, but im a Law Enforcement agent. We dont deal with the cost aspect of it. What i can tell you about what i am an expert on is Border Security and how we can secure our border. I mean, those are absolutely good questions and questions that need to be addressed. Im just not the one to address them. Host you are the president of the Border Patrol council. When did you get elected . Brandon i was just elected again for another term yesterday. But i have been the president for the national Border Patrol council for the last seven years. Host you balance that with, you are a working agent as well . When you are finished this weekend, after meeting with president trump, it is back to work next week . Brandon i am, yes. I spent a good deal of my time representing our agents and in uniform patrolling the border. Host we will hear from mel in salt lake city, utah. Democrats line. Mel. Caller yeah, thanks for cspan. Right off the bat, i know
Contributors of this report will talk on u. S. Approach to Counter China based on this report. So now introductions. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude towards the world, challenged by chinas ambition. Vice president mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, and this is very important, and said beijing government approach using Political Economic and military tools as propaganda to advance its interest and benefit its interest in the United States. So given that the United States need to win the competition, cooperation will arise in likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a deciding factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, the wild, wild west the winning side comprise but the losing side was composed of just four. During the u. S. Soviet cold war, 54 versus 26 eric so these facts indicate that the number of supporters correlate to the likelihood of winning the competition. Therefore, maintaining improving coll