Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Im mike ohanlon, here to welcome you about a discussion with possible wartime scenarios with russia and or china. This panel has a lot of expertise on these subjects. Im going to briefly introduce folks in a minute and hand the baton, so to speak, over to my good friend and colleague jung pak, who will be our moderator. Shell pose questions to the panelists. Were talk amongst ourselves for the first half of this 90minute event then go to you. The panelists have all been kind enough, as well as jung as moderator, to allow me to use my new book the senkaku paradox as the spring board for this discussion, but only the spring board, and the conversation will range much more widely. But let me just say a brief word of introduction to the subject before introducing them. Just so you know, at least where our starting point is in this project and this conversation today. I think back to something that my good friend Lieutenant General John Whis
On cspan2. Okay. We went right to okay. Well, i think thats the tone for what we want to talk about today. So welcome, everyone, with that to our first readiness subcommittee hearing of 2024. Hopefully, he will be able to join us. We have a new member joining the subcommittee this year, representative gooden of the 5th district of texas. I look forward to working with him and hopefully when our other subcommittee members free up from their obligations, we can get everybody over here, but i look forward to working with all of you as we go forward through this next year. Unfortunately as you can see from the photos todays topics is not a new issue, infrastructure across the department and the services continues to age and the deteriorating conditions at military facilities, obviously, have brought us as you well know. The neglect, the disrepair, the underfunding of our military facilities doesnt just harm our operational readiness capability, it does have significant impacts on everythin
On cspan2. Okay. We went right to okay. Well, i think thats the tone for what we want to talk about today. So welcome, everyone, with that to our first readiness subcommittee hearing of 2024. Hopefully, he will be able to join us. We have a new member joining the subcommittee this year, representative gooden of the 5th district of texas. I look forward to working with him and hopefully when our other subcommittee members free up from their obligations, we can get everybody over here, but i look forward to working with all of you as we go forward through this next year. Unfortunately as you can see from the photos todays topics is not a new issue, infrastructure across the department and the services continues to age and the deteriorating conditions at military facilities, obviously, have brought us as you well know. The neglect, the disrepair, the underfunding of our military facilities doesnt just harm our operational readiness capability, it does have significant impacts on everythin
Before you today, congress has not yet passed the f. Y. 2024 Defense Budget. So before i begin i want to devastating the failure to pass last years budget request is to ensuring our National Defense and global security. Last year the Department Released the most strategyaligned budget in d. O. D. History. It allocated Critical Resources consistent with our defense priorities as outlined in the 2022 National Defense strategy and the pres the president s nal security strategy. Our goal was to fortify the National Defense against emerging and enduring threats to our nation and the International Order as weno congress inability to pass the f. Y. 2024 Budget Holding back. Needed funding hinders our ability to execute that strategy. The department has no way around that reality. Instead we have been strapped with a series of continuingâ– resolutions. C. R. s are a significant constraint on our ability to advance our defense strategy. Forcing the department to operate with one hand tied behi
Deputy defense secretary Kathleen Hicks and joint chiefs of staff vice chair admiral Christopher Grady talked about President Bidens 22 any five et requests and talked about how it would support priorities such as readiness, innovation of support for military personnel and their families. s really a pleasure to be with you here today to discuss President Bidens fiscal year ment of defense. Congress has not yet passed the fy wednesday for Defense Budget. I nt to hightow devastating the failure to pass last years budget request is to ensuring our National Defense and global security. Last year the Department Released a now strategy aligned budget in dod history. It allocated Critical Resources consistent with our defense priorities, as2022 national defy and the president S National Security strategy. We buckled down and did our homework. Our primary goal was to fortify emerging and enduring threats to our nation and the International Order as we know it. First and foremost, the f. Y. 24