Battle of tal afar. Continuing on to serve in afghanistan afghanistan. And now h. R. , im going to butcher your title. So ill let you give it to me directly. Its Deputy Commander general for training and doctrine command for futures. And then the clunky long title is the Army Capabilities integration center. Im glad i didnt try to memorize that. Arcic. But what h. R. Is really that quite extraordinary combination of thinker and great military leader. There arent that many in our history. There are a few people like general jack galvin but its very few. So were really privileged i think to have somebody with us who has an extraordinarily distinguished record of command including command in combat. With an equally distinguished record as a thinker. He was also i should have mentioned up front a senior fellow at the iiss and remains affiliated with iiss as well. Its wonderful to be here with him particularly since as i said were old friends. The way we thought wed do this is begin it as a
Building up their military presence in crimea . Ambassador nuland . Yes, sir. Mr. Poe that would seem to me that they are there to stay. What do you think . Ambassador nuland i think we need to maintain the pressure and we have to maintain the cost and we have to keep mr. Poe when i talked to the president of ukraine last year asking what we could do, he replied that they would prefer that we send something other than canned food to them, which is what we were doing0 are we what we were doing. Are we still talking about help them fight for their own freedom, giving the military eight . Or are we actually doing it . Ambassador nuland we have provided 118 million in Security Assistance. I can give you a rundown, but it improves counter fire radar batteries, communication equipment, counterjamming, a suite of emergency medical, all those things training, and we will continue to look at what we can do. Mr. Poe that is all nonlethal aid. Are we sending any guns, bullets . Ambassador nuland
Quorum call quorum call quorum call the presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid ill bet the senate is in a quorum call. Is that right . The presiding officer the senator is correct. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid mr. President , i ask unanimous consent at a time to be concerned by the majority leader, after consultation with the republican leader, the senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations, calendar number 834, 835 and 877. That there be 30 minutes for debate equally divided in the usual form ux that following the use or yielding back of that time, the senate proceed to vote without intervening action or debate on calendar number 834, 835 and 877 in that order. The motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be no intervening action or debate and that no further motions be in order and that any related statements be printed in the record a
The anp, when the American Military are responsible for the invested money into this force in its original idea being traditional, try posts, policing force. Not necessarily related to this day. Thats important to remember. We point out in the report that the anp is not the first experiment. I tend to argue that it goes back to 2001 to the beginning of the military intervention because a lot of the act tears in kandahar were former commanders, former militias, the northern alliance. So theres a sense of continuity they are. And you know, a number of experiments. When we talk about the anp, the Afghan Government authorizes in 2010. Thats when the president ial decree was signed after a period of intense negotiations between the because it made so much oversight by Government Forces, generally when you stand up forces in areas where theres a sort of beyond government control, that is where the problems start. It is difficult to monitor them and all sorts of issues arise, but this is the
Cautiously. Carefully and cautiously. This is a priority because this will be working for five years and we want to choose clean people. Indonesias new president jokowi holds his first Cabinet Meeting as human rights activists decry him for picking a new defense minister who once defended the militarys abuses in west papua and aceh. We will speak to allan nairn. Then should genetically modified food be labeled . Voters in colorado and oregon will decide next week. Knowing if youre eating or buying genetically engineered food is not your right. May be moved to europe or japan if you want that right. Or a lot of countries were people have the right to know. But not here, baby. Vote and you get to know what is in your food. Monsanto is pouring millions of dollars to fight labeling. We will speak to Tufts University professor sheldon krimsky, editor of the new book, the gmo deception what you need to know about the food, corporations, and Government Agencies putting our families and our en