Is really hard to imagine all the things that happen when you are vice chairman but theres an interesting dynamic that happens because on 18 november i changed command that u. S. Strategic command and when i changed command at u. S. Strategic command i was in command of 150,000 americans. They went to work every day to do the ab150,000 americans is an interesting element in command structure. Then on 21 november i swore in as vice chairman of joint chiefs of staff and went to a staff of five. Because im actually not in command of anything anymore. I have no command responsibilities, and will command anything. [laughter] when we drove out to omaha on the way over here and we were in a little bit of a hurry because the chairman had been out of vice chairman a little while he wanted me there quick. We were moving pretty fast across the country and my wife looked over at me somewhere in kentucky and said, this feels quite different, doesnt it . I said, what do you mean . She said, its like
Secretary, good to see you sir. Its an honor to be here. Thank you very much to aits kind of interesting being vice chairman. I dont know how you described it until youve experienced it is really hard to imagine all the things that happen when you are vice chairman but theres an interesting dynamic that happens because on 18 november i changed command that u. S. Strategic command and when i changed command at u. S. Strategic command i was in command of 150,000 americans. They went to work every day to do the ab150,000 americans is an interesting element in command structure. Then on 21 november i swore in as vice chairman of joint chiefs of staff and went to a staff of five. Because im actually not in command of anything anymore. I have no command responsibilities, and will command anything. [laughter] when we drove out to omaha on the way over here and we were in a little bit of a hurry because the chairman had been out of vice chairman a little while he wanted me there quick. We were
China has done in space im newsed initiatives in the 1990s. And i read them in the 1990s but wasnt until a few years ago people started saying, this is new. No, its not. They have an Economic Strategy thatdates back to 1979. A military strategy that dates back to mid1990 and have been going on a consistent approach and the world will be different and many cases thats not good. And we have to deal with that. So that consistent strategy is hugely powerful in term of achieving the objectives they stated way back as long as 41 years ago. China is a powerful economy. Lets look at another powerful economy. I put that in big quotes. North korea. North korea is 115th most powerful economy in the world. 115 out of 192. One of the poorest countries in the world. But somehow over the last few years, north korea has developed a Ballistic Missile program that can then neighbores and the out and Nuclear Program that can then the neighbors and the United States, and theyve done that and change the en