Chairman. You talked about managing risk, mr. Chairman. Would removing our only airborne brigade, b. C. T. , in the arctic, or the only b. C. T. In the asia pacific, would that do to our credibility . Would that boles you are our credibility in the arctic or asia pacific with regard to the rebalance . And you talk about risk. It seems to me Vladimir Putin is militarizing this part of the world. If were actually removing force, removing forces, our own arctic trained forces, thats a way to increase risk because we know he views weakness as being provocative. Theyre making a move in the arctic. If we start withdrawing troops, the 425 in particular, i think that heightens risk. Would either of you care to comment on that . General dempsey yes. I think it increases risk but some of the decisions, and youre talking about the army in this case, but some of the choices that the Service Troops have to make in terms of resources, you know, the army is tasked going from 490,000 active where they
So why isnt it easier to finance these huge need for infrastructure and that someone unless countries. What is the seem to be a kind of chronic i would not useecular stagnation but the difficulty in getting the firms that actually exist to do their work. And anything and anything else you want to say. Thank you. Thank you for a very inspirational talk. I do think you know, when the music changes and you have a different dance i have different dances that come out of this dance around infrastructure spending. The reserve has shown that we had a long time for the public capitol stock essentially infrastructure has come down as a percent of gdp in low income countries, Something Like 40 percentage points, 20 25 years . So it is not a shortterm phenomenon that Infrastructure Investment i think it has been a longterm phenomena. We have tried to rely for a long time on the private sector, private business to deliver the infrastructure and i think now what we are realizing what is really impo
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