in our in our defense industrial base. professional staff member on the senate foreign relations committee had a policy on the house armed services committee national security advisor to one of the most distinguished senators fred thompson a very varied career in you brought extensive background to your role as secretary of defense, and we're here today to discuss your late your book, which is entitled to sacred oath memoirs of a secretary defense do an extraordinary time in i like to start by seeing that i believe if i'm correct that when you graduated as a second lieutenant from west point you raised your right hand and you said i mark esper do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign in domestic that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same that i take this obligation freely without any middle reservation or purpose of ovation and that i will well in faithfully discharge the duties on the office on which i'm about to enter so help me god i take an oath took an o

of our national defense strategy. our strategy has four priority objectives. first, defending the homeland and face the multi-domain threat that china faces. second, deterring strategic attacks. third, deterring aggression while being prepared to prevail in conflict. prioritizing the p.r.c. challenge and then the russia challenge in europe. finally, building a resilient joint force defense ecosystem. the president's fiscal year 23 request of $773 billion, roughly 8.1% increase over the 2022 request and 4% above the fy 2022 omnibus it makes the investments we need to implement the strategy by pursuing three approaches, which connect our means to our enda -- ends. our first approach is integrative deterrence. we seek to have efforts across the domain and a spectrum of conflict to ensure that the u.s. military in close cooperation with the rest of the u.s. government, allies and partners makes the cost of aggression very clear. the combat credibility of the u.s. military to fight and win is the cornerstone of integrated

doctor esper ph d, vice president of the largest defense arrow space in our defense industrial base. professional staff member on the senate foreign relations committee. orhedda policy on the house armd services committee paid national secured advisor 20 most distinguished editors, fred thompson. a varied career and you brought extensive background to your role as secretary of defense. we are here to discuss your book which is entitled the sacred oath memoirs of the secretary of defense through an extraordinary time. i would like to start by saying that i believe, if i am correct, when you graduated as a second lieutenant from west point you raise your right hand. he said i mark esper dishonest where will support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. i will bear true allegiance to the same bird i take this obligation freely without mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well ane faithfully discharge the duties on the office of which i'm about to enter so help me god. i take an oath, you take an oath to the constitution. is this what y

of the european defense industry, and will also help to increase defense spending. we welcome it. the only thing we have to make sure is that the eu efforts do not compete with nato or duplicate nato, because nato will remain the cornerstone for european security. this is about resources. 80% of nato's defense expenditures, from non-eu nato allies. it is about geography. norway and iceland in the north. turkey in the south. and in the west, united states, canada, and the united kingdom are critical for the defense of europe. and it is about politics. because any attempt to divide europe, and north america, will not only weaken nato, it will divide europe. so we need europe and north america together with nato, working together with the european union. >> take you for your leadership and thank you for being here. [applause] >> c-span has unfiltered coverage of the u.s. response to russia's invasion of ukraine. we also have international perspectives from the united nations and statements from foreign leaders, all on the c-span networks, the c-span now free mobile app

in our in our defense industrial base. professional staff member on the senate foreign relations committee had a policy on the house armed services committee national security advisor to one of the most distinguished senators fred thompson a very varied career in you brought extensive background to your role as secretary of defense, and we're here today to discuss your late your book, which is entitled to sacred oath memoirs of a secretary defense do an extraordinary time in i like to start by seeing that i believe if i'm correct that when you graduated as a second lieutenant from west point you raised your right hand and you said i mark esper do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign in domestic that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same that i take this obligation freely without any middle reservation or purpose of ovation and that i will well in faithfully discharge the duties on the office on which i'm about to enter so help me god i take an oath took an o

of our national defense strategy. our strategy has four priority objectives. first, defending the homeland and face the multi-domain threat that china faces. second, deterring strategic attacks. third, deterring aggression while being prepared to prevail in conflict. prioritizing the p.r.c. challenge and then the russia challenge in europe. finally, building a resilient joint force defense ecosystem. the president's fiscal year 23 request of $773 billion, roughly 8.1% increase over the 2022 request and 4% above the fy 2022 omnibus it makes the investments we need to implement the strategy by pursuing three approaches, which connect our means to our enda -- ends. our first approach is integrative deterrence. we seek to have efforts across the domain and a spectrum of conflict to ensure that the u.s. military in close cooperation with the rest of the u.s. government, allies and partners makes the cost of aggression very clear. the combat credibility of the u.s. military to fight and win is the cornerstone of integrated

spent on defense? ? in the 10 year window -- >> in the 10 year window? >> yet. fy 32. the trajectory on where will we be in fy32. >> we should be a bit above where we are right now. >> now we are at 2.4% of the numbers i have been given a right. over time, we spend less historically than we've ever spent. and given the 10 years that i'm looking at, i don't see a real peace dividends out there. how many current battle for strips to we have in the navy? >> we have 296. we have 11 aircraft carriers. how many ships does china have? >> i think the latest number was around 400. >> 355, they're going to 422 by -- well, for 60 by the end of 2030. where will we be in terms of ships by the end of 2032? u.s ships. it's 280. so the bottom line is, we're on the wrong path here from my humble opinion. we're spending below inflation. the chinese are increasing their navy by 2032. we'll have 280 ships below what we have today. gdp spent on defense will the at 244% -- at 2.4%. i don't know what kind of world we are loo

what you think, specifically whether the defense budget and national defense strategy has the right mix on what it is specific to russia and china and also these other factors, north korea, iran. is there anything you're looking at right now with the situation with russia, do you worry about the readiness of u.s. military and how the money is being appropriated in this budget? max: i am struck by how we are having some of the same debates we've been having for a while. when president obama wanted to pivot to asia, the concern was you are turning away from something, in that case middle east terrorism was our primary concern, to focus on this one thing. united states does not have the luxury of focusing in one area or on one adversary and vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine is a slap in the face reminder that there are other threats to the world that we have to pay attention to. i am also struck by a lot of continuity in this national defense strategy that secretary hicks was talking about from the last one. it is words on the paper. the question is what change are you going to make tha

increase of its defense budget. needed to effect it. president biden strongly supported my determination. we also concurred to expand and deepen security and defense cooperation between japan and the united states. further, president biden reiterated his commitment to japan's defense. and to make sure that the extended deterrence will remain unwaving. unwavering. we condicur to keep in close touch. in addition, to alleviate impact on local communities of others, we also concur to steadfastly implement it. u.s. forces in japan realignment including construction. or replacement facilities. because situation around the nuclear weapons are getting severe, we also conclude that efforts on nuclear disarmament and work toward the world without nuclear weapons. engagement in the indo pacific by the united states and especially in the economic order is becoming ever more important. japan welcomes the launch of the indo pacific economic frame work by president biden and will participate and cooperate in this initiative. havin

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well, guess how many countries have attack nato and sparked a defensive response, but how many were defensively bombed back into the stone age by the alliance? ah ah ah ah, nato truly has a hawkish, shy from spotting threats, thousands of kilometers away and defending proactively on the turf of other countries and continence as for unity, the alliance may not be that allied after rule. turkeys long being the rebel kid and nato's big family, like when anchor is purchased, rushes as 400 ad defense systems. the move landed in a foul of the blocks till bras. some other member states haven't been to obedient either. it's good that europeans in the united states coordinate, but it's necessary that europeans conduct their own dialogue. we must put together a joint proposal, a joint vision, a new security instability order for europe. i don't think it's justified for germany and nato to become warring parties in ukraine. although we hung gary and gave a consent for this decision. we made our position very clear that hungary is not sending troops to ukraine because we do not want to get involved in this

passed democracy defense lease act. the legislation that passed with bipartisan support will make it easier for the united states to provide further military equipment and humanitarian aid to ukraine. the act was first used in 1941 in support of great britain's defense against germany prior to the u.s. entry to world war ii. this atlantic council discussion is about 15 minutes. >> good morning. welcome to the council's front-page event will the united states again be the arsenal of democracy, a conversation on land use for ukraine. i am on the board of directors at the atlantic council and also vice chair of the scowcroft center for strategy and security and senior fellow at harvard kennedy's school for science and international affairs. the council's front-page series is our premier live its platform for global leaders into the perfect setting for today's event. we are so glad that all of you can join us.ou today the atlantic council has the very distinct honor of hosting u.s. senators ben cardin of maryland and b john

s. department of defense is now proactively planning cooperation. between the us national guard and ty, one's defense forces with senator duckworth also recently introduced to bill that further prioritize is tiwana security. as part of u. s. military deployment. in the indo pacific region. i'm actually we look forward to closer cooperation on matters of regional security, but tie one securities routinely challenged by chinese air force sorties into its air defense on each time this happens, the taiwanese air force response, and one former sealer is there at hand to monitor this challenge shortly after dawn on a southern taiwanese beach, the 1st radio message of the day from taiwan air force warning away chinese aircraft pings through robin suse, phone attention. you've entered our air space inter jeopardizing aviation safety turnaround and leave immediately. he could be a hobby plain spotter anywhere in the world, but sue has a more serious pastime. the former navy radar operator has made it his mission to gather days on military activity in one of

and as the department of defense considers assets and please don't forget the defense industrial base of the country. and with that manufacturing capacity as well as energy. we are often overlooked. and then to point you to that. and to be very concerned about our military andco nutritional value and i would like you to find someone in the department that could come to my office and we could discuss this i would be grateful for that. and the question of the terms of ukraine. right now i don't want to talk about it but in the defense establishment could brief us on that ass well as of the global supply issue. and then with the issue of behavioral health and shortly thereafter the topping of i can put this on the record as part of the caucus we have 100,000 neuropsychologist short as a country for hundred thousand behavioral nurses short. had we help another country of the personnel toma do it? i would urge you to consider university of health services as a portal to create a program that would draw people then because they earn more than they do taking care of their neuropsychiatric co

i formally served in the defense department as a senior director for defense policy and strategy for the national security council staff for president bush and president obama. russia's war on ukraine is in another crucial phase. ukraine's victory in the battle of kiva has caused russia to refocus on defeating the army in the east. a military victory there and across ukraine southern coast could really open the way for further russian attacks, not just on ukraine, including kyiv, but also on moldova and our allies, romania or. so, this is a critical issue for us. the united states and our allies. i have to say, the land lease bill will play a critical role. it will show congress support for increased weapons deliveries. it will speed up u.s. government bureaucracy to get ammunition and weapons to ukraine faster. it will send a message to ukrainians that they can count on us, for the long-term. it will strengthen ukraine's hand in negotiations by demonstrating the depth of u.s. support. it will encourage other nato allies to do the same and it will send a message to russia and china t

ah ah, you its defense contractors find it hard to hide, they delight over. so in profits amid the war in ukraine as the white house puts an order off to order for arms to help kids fight for its freedom. for mckee, official from new zealand lashes out at nato's aggressive policy of arming ukraine . we're going to make sure that a movement begins in new zealand to stop us being dragged into this war. cherry of natal know its reputation, we know doesn't defend democracy. and the notorious radical website and ukraine flex, the hungarian prime minister, victor all been on the list of enemies of the state for refusing to play ball with western sanctions. with hello, welcome to our international coming to live from us studios in moscow. i'm paula leo. and it's a pleasure to be with you in joe biden is set to visit one of the main us defense contractors responsible for producing the javelin anti tank missiles. it's been sent in its thousands to ukraine. the white house confirmed the news with press secretary jammed psyche even detaining just why the weapon is provi

military defense of taiwan should china invade? gen. milley: i will not do that. i appreciate the opportunity to not answer a question. [laughter] there is a variety of contingency plans we hold. all of them are highly classified. pacific, europe, and elsewhere. it would be very inappropriate for me to discuss the risks associated with those plans relative to anything with respect to taiwan. or anywhere else in the pacific. reporter: i will give you the opportunity to not answer one more question. would you support sending troops to taiwan? gen. milley: i would render my advice at that moment of time to the president and the secretary of defense. sec. austin: felicia? reporter: i am over here. thanks. going back, if you do send them, would you be ok with those weapons being used to push russian forces out of crimea and the donbas? how important is it to reopen ukrainian ports in the black sea and what is the u.s. doing to help? sec. austin: again, as i said earlier, i will not get involved in discussing any specific requirements and how we will address those requi

so the defense ministry is leaning into this. it will take a little bit of time to get some of these opened up. to the degree that we want them opened up but that work is ongoing. and i have to admit that the industry is meeting us more than halfway on this issue. >> thank you. >> next, we'll go to mr. wolmac. >> the first thing i will acknowledge mr. secretary, general, your competence, your leadership throughout the years. i've been working here working national security and i think you both are excellent leaders during very difficult times. and i think you have the right team to move forward in what your mission is. so, thank you for your service. i'm going to get into more specific area, ukraine cyber security posture. over the last few weeks we have publicly learned more and more about how our nation's cyberspace operations have both aided allies and partners like ukraine. and our own understanding of our adversary's capabilities and techniques in cyberspace. how important is persistent engagement with maligned actors in cyb

s. navy rear admiral and military analyst at the foundation for the defense of democracy. and he joins us now. hi and welcome to d w. how much of a blow is the loss of marty you pull for ukraine? thank you very much for having me follow. you know, the look, it's a, it's an emotional blow. but militarily, this was a last piece of battle space. several weeks ago, and it ends in embarrassment for the russians where they could not a consummate a, see john, what turned out to be about 1000 ukrainian soldiers and some other number of civilians there. so i don't think it's militarily consequential. i think it was going to happen, and the russians effectively have a land bridge from the don boss region to crimea. right, to the russians have that land bridge. but let's talk a little bit about the russian military. is this a huge morale boost for them? i think it'll have some advantage and they'll certainly do a lot of information. operations are really dis, information operations are about the brigade now and i am confident they'll, you know, they'll run their own eventually run th

first, our national defense strategy with that out. it is something we have to consider in everything we do. but right now i am responsible for army activities in africa. africa suffers from the certification -- desertification. lack of resources, new your location, you can find it. the grain shortage is exacerbated by drought in india. all this is having an impact inside my ao are -- or -- aor in africa and i take it seriously. if you look at europe, the arctic is changing and the military geography of the high north, which nato and others are dealing with now. >> i appreciate your thoughtful response. this is a crisis that often gets overlooked in national security and is betting to all of us. over the past two months, congress has provided tens of billions of dollars of emergency spending to support the response to the russian invasion, i am in support about spending but i'm concerned about the risk of waste. this committee is owed a backlog of several years of reports on the defense plan for the european deterrence initiative. i ha

there's different aspects of territorial defense. at the community level, there are voluntary units which are subordinate to battalions of the territorial defense forces. territorial defense forces are a completely different branch of the military. they're made up of people like me, like you who have no, probably no military or significant military experienced, but feel they want to defend their country. so what do span i am. i'm not a frontline soldiers. most of the territorial defense units have not been on the boat. half of them now are on the front lines. i had helped with the logistics. i've helped with the kidding out, my battalion and another battalion with body armor and helmets. and i'm an advisor to the military administration, the head of the military administration in my region. you say that russia is not advancing as quickly as they would hope, but all reports indicate that keith is losing a lot of ground, the dumb boss. what's the most pressing, tactical challenge, ukrainian forces need to overcome to change the current

when we talk about collective defense and the mutual defense clause young that's buffoons, right? still looking sex an upstairs in the nation or the greatest and population and economy germany is doing. it's bit as appropriate. i analyse expect this of us within the framework of the near tell objectives and we are prepared to do this colleagues, even because we know you, there's a willingness, this commitment of one for all and all for one is what makes the transatlantic alliance, whether it is a mutual defense clause with walton built is a good visit and the certainty that we have from this door can be seen when we see that finland and sweden want to join with one without any hesitation. le, let me say, how friends in sweden and more than land lou our most cordially welcome with you. on our side later will become even stronger in europe even safer. waltman's wonderful. the russians russians attack on ukraine has made any other countries in europe to rethink their security investigations. like many have been investing considerably more in their defense. since this attack will pop

she has also served as the under secretary of defense for politics, advising the secretary of defense on a range of functional and regional issues. i would be remiss not to mention that she also served as the founding director of the resilience center, striving for sustainable solutions to climate, migration, and security problems. sec., thank you for taking on the myriad security challenges now facing the nation. moderating the conversation today is vivian, who serves as a national security reporter at "the wall street journal," having covered foreign-policy and national security for two decades and has reported from 70 nations. before i hand it over to secretary wormuth for keynote remarks, i would like to remind everyone that this is a public event and on the record. we encourage our audience on zoom to direct questions to the secretary using the q&a tab that you can find at the bottom of your screen. be sure to identify yourself, please, and your affiliation as you ask your question. we will be collecting them throughout the event and then vivian will pose some questions to our gu

chinese military threat to taiwan paging sent another group of military planes to pro tire ones air defense zone. but recently the formations are getting bigger. we meet this man a former sailor who spends his days monitoring them and why hong kong exiles are being treated with suspicion in taiwan. some lawmakers say they could be chinese spies among their ranks. ah. i british energy welcome to d w. news asia. glad you could join us. taiwan has reported the 2nd largest incursion of chinese military plains into its air defense on the sierra, the islands defense ministry said 30 chinese jeff intruding 20 fighters entered the area badging views taiwan. as it stood a tree and regularly sent large sorties into ty, one's air defense own to show its muscle. the incursions come the same day the president find when revealed possible future cooperation between ty wants, military and the united states national guard. during a meeting with us, senator tammy duckworth boy, i us, department of defense is now pro actively planning cooperation between the us national guard and ty, one's defense forces with

according to russia's defense ministry, president vladimir zalinski is p. r. stunt turned into a catastrophe. for his military over a 3 day period, more than 50 elite, ukrainian soldiers lost their lives for plains, 10 helicopters for vessels and 30 drones were destroyed. starting on the 7th of may, he made multiple attempts to recaptures, mean the island at nightfall, 3 ukrainians through 24 bumpers and wants to 27 fighter. carried out a boma strike, flint at extremely low altitude to the islands, all hostile aircraft were destroyed over the sea by the black sea fleet. air forces for armoured vessels brought 24 ukrainian paratroopers who successfully landed on the island. the boats for consequently sank by a rush of air force while you cranes, special forces. soldiers were all killed, falling and intense fire fight. another attempt to capture the island took place. the next day, one for helicopters, tried to bring in more troops. this time, they were led by the deputy commander of ukraine's navy. the whole helicopter group was destroyed by fighters of the

the 2nd topic was this defense. the war again wasn't, is a stark reminder for member states on the need to strengthen our defense capacities. we have seen positive developments, notably, of course, we are all aware of finance and sweetness application to join nato. nate are the strongest military alliance in the world. and they will benefit greatly from their membership. but also the fact that since the beginning of the war leaders and the member states stepped up and announced by now 200000000000 euros in extra military spending. now it is important that we ensure that these stepping up and additional investment we get the maximum value out of it. and we all know the challenges that exist within the european union or the european model. on one hand, it is the lack of f investment over the last year, so the gaps have to be filled. but the big challenge is the fragmentation we have within the european defense industry and the doubly cation of weapon systems. here we see that this leads to increased cost to reduce int

they are of course, critical for the defense of europe. and it's about politics, becaus any attempt to divide europe and north america will not only weaken nato, it will divide europe. so we need europe and north america together in nato, strong transatlantic bond, working together with the european union. >> thank you very much, secretary general, thank you for leadership and thank you for being here. >> thank you. [applause] >> c-span brings you an unfiltered view of government. our newsletter "word for word" recaps the day for you from the halls of congress to daily press briefings to remarks from the president. scan the qr code at the right bottom to sign-up for the email and stay up-to-date on everything happening in washington each day. subscribe to do using the qr code or visit c-span.org/connect to subscribe anytime. >> sunday on q&a journalist elizabeth becker author of you don't belong here and winner of the 2022 goldsmith book prize tells the story of three women who reported on the vietnam war during the time when covering war