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Committee on the future of the u. S. Armed forces and recommendations to improve the services. Including cost savings and efficiencies, incentivizing and managing the civilian work force. [ gavel ] committee will come to order. This week, the committee will hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years, that includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational reform. While a lot has been done, however, a lot more needs to be done. If world around us is simply moving too fast for us to sit still and assume that the organizations and processes of ....
And we will see the welcome given to the new president of zambia. At least 20 people have been killed in violent protests across egypt. Demonstrators were marking the fourth an visaversary of the revolution that ousted president hosni mubarak. Reporter reporter four years since the revolution that led to the overthrow of hosni mubarak. But the unrest persists. Despite the army filling up Tahrir Square protesters have been taking to the streets to mark the day the uprising began. He job descriptions marched in cairo, alexandria and several cities to demand an end to what they dahl military rule and a return to the path of the revolution. We stand at the situation thats even worse than the mubarak days four years after the revolution. And in my own personal view i think that the first wave of the egyptian revolution has been defeated. We have to be frank with ourselves about this. There have been death ins alexandria after violent sk ....
Targeted air strikes to protect our american personnel, and a humanitarian effort to save thousands of iraqi civilians who are trapped on a mountain without food and water and facing almost certain death. Let me explain the actions were taking and why. First, i said in june, as the terrorist group isis began advancing across iraq that the United States would be prepared to take targeted military action in iraq if and when we determined the situation required it. In recent days, these terrorists have continued to move across iraq and have neared the city of erbil, where american diplomats around civilians serve. To stop the advance, ive directed our military to take targeted strikes against terrorists convoys, should they move toward the city. At the request of the Iraqi Government, weve begun operations to help save iraqi civilians stranded on the mountain. As isis has march ....