At the foundation for defense and democracy, he addressed the armys recruitment efforts and preparedness to do with existing and emerging Global Security threats. This runs one hour. Welcome to the foundation for defense of democracy, a special welcome to our viewers online and those watching on cspan today. I am the founder and president , and i am pleased to welcome you to our event today, ruthless prioritization, the armys defense strategy. We are honored to host acting defense secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy. As secretary esper and general millie highlighted in the army Posture Hearing earlier this year, the army confronts a Global Security environment that is increasingly competitive, and volatile. We see great power adversaries working overtime to erode americas military power and threaten our interests and those of our allies. In light of these challenges, and to support the National Defense strategy, the army has achieved commendable progress on readiness, but in a vision
That youre in. I guess the only other comment i. Would like for you to answer, because id like all my y colleagues to be able to have time to answer questions is the old line about those of us that ignore the lessons of history. General odierno, you made reference to it. When general shymire came beforell this community and said we had amembe hollow army, i know my friend ere senator reed remembers that also and we were able to recover hardwarewise and ships and airplanes and guns and but it took a lot longer than that to restore the readiness and the morale of members of our military and all four of you made reference to it. I would like you to elaborate a little bit on the personnel side br of this because it seems there is always the best and the. Brightest that leave first when ot youre a pilot that cant fly m and on a ship that doesnt leave br port and on so maybe each of you can give a brief comment about great the intangible that makes us the greatest military on earth. Ill begi
Department of Veterans Affairs. Robert Alan Mcdonald of ohio to be secretary. The presiding officer under the previous order, the time until 12 30 will be equally divided in the usual form. Mr. Sanders madam president . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, i rise today in strong support of the nomination of Robert Mcdonald to serve as secretary of the Veterans Affairs administration. Madam president , i also want to thank majority leader reid for moving this important nomination forward as quickly as it has, and i hope very much that later this afternoon, with a very strong vote, the u. S. Senate will vote to confirm Robert Mcdonald as secretary of the v. A. Madam president , before i talk about mr. Mcmcdonalds qualifications, i did want to take a moment to express my sincere thanks to generic shinseki for his dedicated service to our nation, first as a soldier and then as head of the v. A. , working ti
Or satisfying its purported rights in a way its safe and monitored. Thats a very important shift, and one of the things that iran has tried to do in addition to its effort to undermine the credibility of the iaea is to show that it stood up to the u. N. Security council, whose legitimacy is also impugned. And so that in itself, that kind of change in dynamic, is an important change in itself. When it comes to the particulars, i think we made that vital concession on iran iran has been seeking this since 2003. We conceded any restraints iran is under will be temporary in nature and quite short in nature and iran will be treated like nye state at the end of this process, despite, again, those obligations. We have granted some implicit legitimate si to those facilities which, remember, constructed in secret and in violation of the now will remain in place and not be dismantled. We have not forced iran to address the weaponnization question or the Ballistic Missile question. So all of thes
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