Is just over an hour and a half. I see that we have a quorum present. I really want to thank everybody for joining us, its an important issue that i now recognize myself for opening remarks. Pursuant to the notice, were holding a hearing to discuss the american lives on the line come lessons for managing the russia threat. Two weeks ago startling revelations that russia put bounties on american troops serving in afghanistan. This week in the Foreign Affairs committee weve been examining this egregious attack on americans and the Top Administration failure to handle it probably. Its important for the public to know this. Ive personally been involved in four earrings. This week alone that ive with this issue and that doesnt include the actions of other committees working on their own. I just want to underscore to people listening that they should know that we in concert taking over some of this matter very seriously. The one thing if we do nothing else, the most basic and fundamental dut
We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and th
Thank you all for coming here. We are acutely aware that we are the first session after you have come back from lunch. We will try to keep you awake and lively as well as we can. We have a terrific group for this discussion today. To my leimmediate left your rig isnd comaer Steven Fogerty of the United States army Cyber Command. Rick howard, old friend, key Security Officer at palo alto networks. Jeannette mantra, the assistant director for Cyber Security at the department of Homeland Security and of course is its still relatively new agency sissa. And Tanya Ugoretz the deputy direct for cyber at the fbi. This should be a great discussion. Tonya, let me start with you and ask you to just describe, if you can, the rfbis role in cyber space and the threat environment, how you think it has changed over the past year. Sure, thank you, david, and thank you to insa for hosting us today. As we at the fbi look at the threat environment from a macro level it is not necessarily the best news sto
Alliance with regional and Global Security challenges, this is from hosted by the International Strategic studies. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for coming. Its friday afternoon in august and you know, im delighted that your Summer Vacation plans include csis, but its really a testament to how important, influential and respected our panel today is. Im the senior vicepresident for asia and japan here csis at georgetown. Before we get started we always do a brief safety announcement. And we have about ten fourstar admirals and generals in the room, but this former boy scout will be in charge. If there is a need to evacuate and ill let you know, but well head out and head around the corner to National Geographic down 17th street. Out the back. We have simultaneous interpretation and there should be headsets on your chair. If you have a problem, wave and someone will help you. Please leave them on the chair, if you take them home wed send the new
Values. At this time let me introduce the participants of the asked discussion today entitled theed battlegrounds of perception, courtneying threats to free and open societies. Ion heresy ali is a refrp fellow at the Hoover Institution. Served as a had minister of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006. While in parliament she focused on furthering the integration of nonwestern immigrants into Dutch Society and on defending the rights of muslim women. Larry diamond sat senior fellow at the hoover stumts and the institute for international studies. For more than six years he directed fsi center on Democracy Development and the rule of law. Where he now leads the program on arab reform and dpkz and the Global Digital policy incubator. H. R. Mckaufrt is a senior flow at the hoover stiegs 26th assistant to the president for the National Security affairs and served as a commissioned officer in the United States army for 34 years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in june of 2018. The m