[inaudible conversations] good morning. The Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on the posture of the u. S. Central command, Africa Command of special Operations Command in the context of our review on oversight of the fiscal year 2017 Defense Budget. We are pleased to welcome our witnesses general austen general rodrigues and general votel. We thank each of you for dedicated for decades of distinguished service and for your leadership of our men and women in uniform. I would like to extend a special thanks to chairman austen and chairman rodrigues as this may be their last appearance before this committee. Our nations most distinguished National Security leaders have testified before this committee repeatedly and we are witnessing the unraveling of a rulesbased International Order and nowhere is this unraveling more than the middle east from north africa to south asia. State authority and the balance of power are breaking down. This emerging vacuum has bee
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