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the committee is part of a major transition of american military leadership. if confirmed as army chief of staff you will serve along side the joint chief of staffs new service chiefs for the navy and marine core. you will lead part of the volunteer soldiers and time and time over a decade of time in iraq. the army indured 70% of the casual casual casualties. as the nation confronts the most array of global crisis since the world war ii the next chief of staff of army is responsible for making sure the total army and active guard and reserve remains the most decisive land troops in the world. we have drastic reductions in defense funding and the army is going to be forceded to carry out missions with fewer dollars, soldiers and equipment. it has been reduced from 570,000 active duty personal to 490,000 troops this year and last week the army announced they would cut an additional 40000 troops reducing to 450,000. there is talks the army could decline to 420,000 troops ....
i have heard it said that russia was a more centralized state today than it was we re least there was a bureau that has to be consulted in some sense and that means that it is the power that can make decisions very effectively and can respond very rapidly with a changing situation and can exploit opportunities very rapidly and we as a nation and as part of a western alliance have to think about how we deal with are relatively cumbersome decision-making processes and the much broader need to get by with any course of action from a wide range of parliamentary opinions public opinions, civil society and 28 countries across nato and so this is also a very big challenge and it s not just a challenge of being ready with conventional wars is but a challenge of thinking outside of the box in this approach and meanwhile the prosperity agenda must remain at the half of the sca s work and the prime minister and chancellor said many times and you cannot be a strong country and th ....
is one of the tests that the fbi utilizes. one other thing most of the people have been radicalized and guarded to violent extremists has certain characteristics. the same type as people who join gangs. low self-esteem, unemployed categories such as this. a gives you some indication of the kinds of people they usually get involved. there are different statistics on that. that maythat may be more true to those who are going of foreign fighter out and less true or al qaeda type operators. educated and you have seen across the board a high incidence of the down and hours. not to say that there are not pockets. there are two aspects to the foreign fighter problem. there going to come back in the terrorists it is true. what is even more vital is the fact that they are recruiting going over the. it is like voting on american idol. it allows the claim that this is a caliphate. showing the pipeline down over and apart from the physical threat is an important part of diminis ....
strengthened the u.s. army statute as the world preeminent land power. in the groundwork is laid in a battlefield commander, above all as chief of staff of the army, to guide the army s transition to confront future challenges will bear fruit for years to come. each service is our military unique and unrivaled capability. our planes fly by, our ships sail far, our marines act quickly. but it s our soldiers who are unmatched in their ability to seize and to dominate physical terrain, and human terrain. the help give our military and our nation an overwhelming edge entity make our people and making a better world for our children. america maintains that edge today, forged into long wars, sharpened in counterterror efforts around the world, including what must forever be a free world. we must not take that for granted. we must keep owning that edge into the future. as the world changes we must change with it. justo stay unrivaled and postur, agile and ready, and army stron ....
the army provided versatility to the joint force in the requirements of combat and commanders for security assistance. the humanitarian relief operation and contingency operations around the world. the general odierno drove aggressive implementation of mutually supporting the strategic initiatives ensuring that the united states army was the foundation of the joint force. it remains the greatest land force in the world. general odierno insures that the army possessed the capability to provide globally responsive and a wind forces as well as expeditionary and decisively and power across the full range of military operations providing a groundwork for the global land power of interconnected nodes. simultaneously, general odierno worked with the other joint chiefs of staff to ensure that the united states armed forces stand ready to serve the nation in any capacity needed and to advise the countries senior leaders as required. general odierno led the effort in developing a ....