Secretary of the air force for acquisition logistics and technology and ive invited will here today because he has a new idea for how to develop and produce aircraft, fighter aircraft. And i think that its really easy to get distracted or fixated on incremental technology or pointy, shiny new systems, but if will has found a way, a better way, more efficient way to iterate and produce weapons systems, its potentially more Game Changing in the military competition with china. So thats what were here to talk about today. A new concept, so whats it all about . I want to say, its a pleasure being here with you. We did some budget fights back in the day and i just appreciate all of the energy and enthusiasm that youve brought. I also want to give you big props to discuss a digital series, you have a digital fireplace. Its a great leadoff. Look, this is going to be a complicated issue for us, but i think the general idea is pretty easy to pick up. Were already a service that uses Digital Lea
Region there are 2 camps in the region the return camps so that really complicates things enormously so the context has changed in the sense that when it 1st started of course it was an expression of the grievances of the Syrian People became complicated by. I would say Regional International interventions. They were designed to change things in syria its understandable that at the time it was the beginning of the arab spring and everybody thought that this was the tide of history things got more complicated i think people started to revise their positions and understood that the continuation of syrian conflict are continuation is in no ones interests including the neighbors quite frankly you have been very diplomatic as is understandable but let me put it in stark returns because i also. Invested in syria i covered this calling from the very beginning i saw its transition that my own eyes and i think it took a definite turn for the worst while president obama signed a secret the order
Positions have changed and i told you i mean we could have had an agreement or your call and why its happening now because positions have changed has the positions how the positions changed within syria or is it the status of foreign partners all for its plants or is a fair insides that have well. As you know the syrian. Conflict has 3 levels was the international theres a regional and of course there is a good message glocal. The positions have changed both of the regional and. In the sense at some point or countries did not see. Much meaning towards a Constitutional Committee i think that has changed i think they have come around to them and that has influenced the syrian parties now a better i know that when it comes to syria. Youre like quoting his own man a french political economist who used to say that to solve an intractable problem you need to change the context now apparently the context has been changed as you said but. There was also a big believer in coordinating diplomati
Know go in the opposition but also independents to put their minds together and work out. A new constitutional framework you know i think. Im sure you know that there have been a number of internationally mediated efforts to resolve this conflict since 2011 and some of them failed because of the breakouts the trends of the syrian actors many oh well at least some of them because of the positions of foreign powers what has changed on the ground to give you this faint hope that you just articulated though its may lead to something beyond talks well 1st of all i mean you refer to the situation around the world the war is certainly warranted and i think people are tired in syria and beyond and i think. This is. A mechanism that allows the syrians to get together and do something about now. Positions have changed i told you i mean we could have an agreement for your cause and why its happening now because positions have changed has the positions how the positions changed within syria or is
In the sense that at some point there were countries that did not see. Much meaning towards a Constitutional Committee i think that changed i think they have come around and that has influenced the syrian arteries. A beseler i know that when it comes to syria you like quoting his own men they french political economist who used to say that to solve an intractable problem you need to change the context now apparently the context has been changed as you said but. There was also a big believer in coordinating diplomatic and military policy is among european nations particularly britain france and the United States and hes even credited for shortening the 2nd world war through his coordination efforts do you think the syrian war would have been shortened a more specifically do you think the coordination among western powers on the syrian front did it ultimately how to prolong or to shorten the syrian conflict as you pointed out when there was basically talking about europe and were talking