Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties
Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties
Relationship of saudi arabia to the perpetrators , which might start the trail of information that would lead to their involvement in 9 11. Again, thats the kind of information which in open thatssion with materials have in held, made available, could probably answer. Announcements before the last question. If you upcoming programs. September 8, efforts to secure new gun control and solution. Greg walden will be here to discuss efforts to keep and build on the gop House Majority on the im with the donald trump. And then secretary ash carter will speak. You, beforetion to we go to the book signing, which will be in the room next door. As the former chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, what do you think of donald trump now receiving classified briefings . Senator graham i think it is not only in the tradition of recent years, but it is very valuable that a person not show up on the first day of the job as president of the United States ignorant about what the conditions in the wor
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