army. people, modernization, and readiness, talking about striking a balance between meeting the demands of today while also preparing for the future. but given this audience and given everything i know about the atlantic council i thought that this afternoon i would talk a little bit about how the army is going to play its part in implementing the national defense strategy that the department has just issued in the last several week. there are three primary lines of effort in the national defense strategy. the first is campaigning or active campaigning. the next is integrated deterrence. the third is enduring advantages. the army has a role to play and all three pillars and i thought i would talk briefly about our role in each part of the strategies. first, the army is campaigning out in the world every single day. campaigning strengthens deterrents and enables us to give advantages against the full range of competitor actions. but really the core of campaigning is using operating forces a

troops the army potomac realized. we wanted to battle against lee. we advanced into virginia. we fought a battle. and we're advancing. first time that's happened that has not happened before not under mclellan. pope burnside hooker every time the army the potomac advances in virginia and they fight a battle. and they go back and they retreat this time. they fought a battle against the army of northern virginia and their advancing. it was a hard battle casualties were high. i was i'm very unpleasant experience, but we won this battle. we're advancing now. how do you decide who wins the battle soldiers by the way, they're cheering here. i don't know if you can see they're waving their hats and cheering there was quite a cheer a grant was eager to get them to be quiet because we don't want lee to know where we're moving any place. how do you know who won a battle is it is the side that one the side that suffers fewer casualties you know, we haven't gotten to world war two yet, but if the side that takes the fewest casual

and as secretary of the army you had the army by the stack and swivel. that's a term. we understand as military folks his secretary of defense. it's a little bit harder to get control of of some of these organizations one of the things that you know, we do have the world's finest military. we want to keep it that way and they're really three reasons we recruit and retain the best people and their families and want to talk about that in a minute. we give them constant realistic training, but we also from our industry give them the best technology so they're never in a fair fight you worked in industry how important is the defense industrial base in the technologies then and and secretary of defense you have you prioritize i think 10 or 11 top priorities from hypersonics to artificial intelligence to quantum 5g how important to our country into our economy is keep them a focus on these cutting edge technologies, particularly when china we know they're ahead of us in hypersonics. some people would argue. they're ahead of us and ai other people say well not

because grant is present with the army, so grant is responsible for what the army does. if grant were in washington, and meade decided to do something dumb with the army, grant would be responsible in the sense that he was in command of meade, but he wouldn't have known what happened. whereas when grant is present with the army, he is responsible to a greater degree. he almost has to intervene until mid mead, no, don't send us guys over there, send them over here. send that core over here. he's got to do that. this sets up a constant tension through the whole camp and through the rest of the war between grand trying to supervise meade and yet trying to give me to some degree of independence, to let him command the army of potomac. probably, again, what might be better would be if meade recognized himself as a chief of staff in the army at the potomac. i like the idea that would help would have been better, there would've been problems with it, but for granted to bring his friend james b mcpherson out from the west. i think mcpherson and grant would work well together, wi

and as secretary of the army you had the army by the stack and swivel. that's a term. we understand as military folks his secretary of defense. it's a little bit harder to get control of of some of these organizations one of the things that you know, we do have the world's finest military. we want to keep it that way and they're really three reasons we recruit and retain the best people and their families and want to talk about that in a minute. we give them constant realistic training, but we also from our industry give them the best technology so they're never in a fair fight you worked in industry how important is the defense industrial base in the technologies then and and secretary of defense you have you prioritize i think 10 or 11 top priorities from hypersonics to artificial intelligence to quantum 5g how important to our country into our economy is keep them a focus on these cutting edge technologies, particularly when china we know they're ahead of us in hypersonics. some people would argue. they're ahead of us and ai other people say well not

army nurses at an undisclosed fighting front a notice is posted enough said woman's the same in the army or out. naple where we find the air core taking a fire in a gas buggy minus the familiar wing they're heading for the movie in big cities. the problem is much more simple. just find the right kind of auditorium and you can give the man the same presentations they used to get at home. in the outlying areas along the italian front mobile units are doing the job of bringing the movies to the troops most outfits only show about three nights a week. so it's not uncommon for the men to visit another camp close by even though they'll see the same picture as the night before. you come and see it man and that they do. it's the same story each time operations permit time out for relaxation. one of the bigger problems is getting sufficient films to the right places at the right time 1500 and more shows a night with a five and a half million weekly attendance is big time exhibition. naturally every soldier wants to see a brand new film something. you can write home about like a world premiere on

i would also say secretary ofmy the army mark esper, colonel retired united states army, served in uniform on active duty, served in the army national guard, served in the army reserve part one of the few people i know that served in all three components of the united states army for a distinguished 20 career. 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

come served in uniform on active duty, served in thene army national guard, served in the army reserve. one of the few people i know who served in all three components of the united states army or distinguished 21 year career. dr. esper, phd, vice president as per of one of the largest defense and aerospace companies that we have in our defense industrial base. professional staff member on the senate foreign relationste committee, had a policy on the house armed services committee, national security adviser to one of thehe most distinguished senators fred thompson, a very varied career and you brought extensive background to your role as secretary of defense and we hear today to discuss your book which is entitled "a sacred oath: memoirs of a secretary of defense during extraordinary times." i and i would like to start by sayingm that i believe, if i am correct, that when you graduated as a second lieutenant from west point you raise your right hand and you said i, mark esper, do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, t

their army was radically wrong. and indeed initially union forces used this same when the war first broke out in the summer of 661 you had a number of union units organized exactly the same way but union forces, especially army administration is going to begin to phase that out by 1863 any privately held animals in union service are going to be purchased by the federal government. and no additional no new ones. we're going to be provided or that is the federal government would provide animals that were disabled or killed in service now there were the union could do things the confederacy could not for a number of reasons a larger horse population a larger revenue stream. that for example union forces specified that animals had to be a certain age from four to nine years later. they'll shift that to six to ten. that they were to be of a particular color dark hues were preferred and that they were to be geldings no mares. no stallions were to be purchased by the union army for military use and there were a number of r

army forces in europe. for the past year, in africa, i've had the priceless opportunity to work with the interagency, our allies, our partners to advance our common national security objectives. for the last three years, i have done so under the leadership of general walters. i would like to publicly thank him for his mentor ship and his leadership during that time. i would also like to thank you, the united states congress and especially this committee. since my first tour as a general officer in europe in 2014, the congress has worked tirelessly to support our service men and women in our mission. the mission you have repeatedly authorized has been absently vital to building the military readiness to deter russia and to respond in times of crisis. in response to this crisis, the illegal and unprovoked russian invasion of ukraine,, the u.s. military has deployed significant combat power on short notice. an armored brigade combat team, the 18th airborne, a carrier strike group of fifth generation fighters,

of what may line store the german army drops 22000000 leaflets on red army positions. the great lie begins. guys they knew miss kay out of me. well, i wrote up put up a gun on as any malice woof was comely stalk on nihilism. issue leanne near the port or some glen night. i believe it was 80 propaganda come wannine brushes for while in the summer cancer away there lies were beautifully phrased. red army soldiers were cynically offered to make a choice either to perish at the hand of the indestructible german army or to surrender and returned to their families to live happily ever after. one of their goals was to turn the red army soldiers against their commanders and commissars at the blood, mussolini musical propaganda. stover shook me. sorry. i mean you though you drama. was morris to be taking him some to mobile, scan it as we renewed our stability switchable switch. okay. be to, can you sort of food begun that you wished up the walk? i believe you spoke with, if you hadn't taken him from a memo by the head of the high command of the rear, marked the marshal general

but the lines need the red army in the far east, where the one and a half 1000000 strong quinton army is waiting. the us and britain had a hard time retaking several islands from japan and would welcome some help with a japanese read the most was the idea that the soviet might come into the pacific war. truman understood this solid assures that the russians are coming it schedule true in rights, it is diary test dollar will be in the jap war by august. 15th finney japs when that occurs. ah, the invincible cleansing army was able to hold out for just 20 days. ah, the red armies outstanding manchurian operation ended in complete victory. ah, but even those of a new military reasons for it. to russia, like a saki with bond, who the bomb was not actually dropped on japan. it was dropped on the soviet union as a warning of what's going to have the soviets, if they interfered with americans post war plant. ah, oh, let's say, is the 18th. i'm booked for this just like his predecessor is a fun of the morning or afternoon session and they may have to wait for a normalization on the only see ru

so his army captures monterey, but the mexican army leaves. taylor becomes sort of a hero back in the united states then in november he moves north of a place called buena vista in mexico. and sets up his headquarters. in the meantime and the meantime, new mexico and california had fallen quite easily to to american troops. in fact the governor of new mexico is the americans were coming. he got on his horse and left. he decided enough enough is enough and they take new mexico without firing a shot. there's there's a revolt in new mexico during the war. there's a revolt near los angeles during the war but by the end of the summer in new mexico and california are pretty solidly and in american hands so that first part of the war seems to go really well for the united states. in the meantime taylor's just there and he's waiting near buena vista. it seems the the mexicans are not going to treat for peace. so so polk goes to winfield scott and says you've got to draw plans for an invasion of central mexico. the united states is going to have to tak

the silent film, color film of the army, because hoover's funeral was an army, military production, as a former president, and also, worked in a couple pieces of artwork. so, it's kind of a full thing. the recording, you'll hear about a third of the way in, is the radio broadcast of wmt radio out of cedar rapids, iowa. it features grant price, a well-known radio man that eventually went into television andt some of the other wmt that followed the cortege from cedar rapids airport, along i-82 to west branch. there is a full recording of the funeral service that's an edited, the assorted clips that you hear the radio people are just that, a longer segment of a two and a half recording but no one has two enough hours to do this. so we can crunch it. but i did not cut any part of the funeral, even silences of things are as is. so. our story begins with mr. hoover's death, at the age of 90. shortly before noon on, tuesday october 20th, 1964. plans for his funeral were made way back, as far back as in 1958. but so, when he passed the pre-established sequence of events began. let me hit share

and not once has israel hell its army accountable because israel wants its army to continue to act with impunity. and it is r me to be frank of bullies and cowards who consistently target children over 55 journalists had been killed in the last couple of decades. and not once has there been accountability. and so i would argue and call on journalist across the world here to not hold their breath for an israeli investigation on for justice. if they want justice, they should take action into their own hands, including by putting their governments fee to the fire and pushing for the i. c. c . investigation. not only to this crime, but until all the crimes been committed against the palestinian people. of course, it's not any journalist in the crosshairs, but people just living that normal lives who lose their lives and lose a homes and lose everything around them. and is always these continuing calls for something to be done about it, but nothing seems to change. in fact, tension seemed to spiral what can be done to try and effect the change that's required well within all the darkness and

and especially ma civilians, armies don't do this, maybe isis does this. and what do you do with, with groups like isis? how would you brain different in areas where ukrainian nationalist battalions reportedly rampaged burials like this on not uncommon. you can't say that there isn't. there wasn't walk right. it started on december, the 10th 2013 u. s. assistant secretary of state victoria newland arrives in kiev accompanied by jeffrey piet, the u. s. investor to ukraine. the american politician visits the my don, key of and hands out biscuits among the crowd. the color revolution is ready. when i saw new and handing out the cookies, i understood that this was also the work of the criminal united states government. i don't think that there is any thing really untoward about having an american diplomat. they're handing out cookies. i'm a patriotic american. i love the american people, but i hate the american government. it is the forthright. it is the equivalence of nazi germany today. blue salma, u. s. army, cultural and now militia member of the union peo

sweden is the same, a smaller army but a capable army and one that is growing. my colleague has a 200% increase in his acquisition budget over a five-year period. they recently bought patriots and are contemplating other equipment. we work with them closely. they bring a navy in the baltic sea, which will be of enormous military significance to the alliance. if we look geographically with the accession of those companies, the entire black sea with the exception of a few kilometers will be coastline of nato nations which will create a different geometry in the area. >> i think you mean the entire baltic sea. >> i am sorry, of course. >> can you speak about what it means for russia's baltic fleet to have the northern shores of the gulf of finland apart from nato since the southern shore already is and what it means to have a large swedish island in the middle of the baltic fleet? what does that mean to russia's bolton -- baltic fleet? >> it provides geometric dilemmas russia does not have right now if eight so forth from st. petersburg and leningrad. it will be ad

coming directly toward us escorted by army officer and governor hughes. the entire group of close friends and relatives now moving into position directly in front of us between us and the big airplane that carries the president, former president's body. it was carrying mister hoover's body and the for road american flag. on one side of the flag a sailor carrying in m1 rifle on the other side a marine flag appears to be made by an army enlisted man. ruffles and flourishes and hail to the chief by the band, 30 fourth division band and now fight the good fight in one of the papers of mister hoover's. ♪♪ >> the coffin bearing his body will be removed from the airport, air force transport. pallbearers are proceeding down the ramp with flags over top the total view. under the apron. eight members of the armed forces, soldiers, marines. now lined, colorguard on the american side. leading the pallbearers to the hearse. slowly marked. ♪♪ the hearse - the coffin being placed now inside the vehicle that will take it to west branch, members of the military st

army is waiting for us. and britain had a hard time retaking several islands from japan and would welcome some help with a japanese read the most was the idea that the soviets by the pacific war, truly understood this solid assures that the russians are coming in on schedule true rights in his diary test dollar will be in the jap war by august. 15th finney japs with that occurs. ah, the invincible cleansing army was able to hold out for just 20 days. ah, the red armies outstanding, manchurian operation ended in complete victory. ah, been those of no military reasons for it. it'll show like a saki bombed or a bomb was not actually dropped on japan. it was dropped on the soviet union as a warning of what it's going to have to soviets. if they interfered with americans post war plan, ah, western narrative, ukraine is winning and will win is crumbling even the new york times. it admits as much ukrainian military is collapsing. nonetheless, washington and its allies continue to pour in money and arms. it's crunch

and [inaudible] an army man. and then [inaudible] who will preside at the religious service at the grave. and now passing from my view, [inaudible] containing the body of the 31st president of the united states, coming home to arrest rest [inaudible] his sons, herbert junior and -- and their wives and seven grandchildren of herbert qvar. hoover. now passing in front of our vantage point, the governor of iowa. immediately behind him, [inaudible] and president kennedy. and then the very close friends of the family, and military escort proceeding slowly to the green, with its canopy of trees at the ridge here, looking out over the valley on which arrests the hoover library and the cottage where ms. rand was born. the general procession filing slowly into place. and in accordance with a heritage with which president hoover knew and cherished, we shall begin this service with a period of reverent silence into which we ask you all to join. >> let us pray. oh lord, -- the lives of men. we thank the this day for the life

or we were going to filmed is really army operation. and suddenly they shot us without asking us to leave or stop filming. the 1st bullet hit me, and the 2nd bullet had sharin. they killed her in cold blood because they are killers and specialize and killing only palestinian people. so they claim that some palestinian militants were there, we had no resistance and there was no palestinian military resistance at all at the same well eye witness and fellow journalist, so chauffeur. her nature says they were pin done by snipers when she removed short from the laundry car can probably had been it will reach to nary any, was difficult to pull back. there were soldiers in front of us and a wall behind us. and any movement on our part would have triggered firing at us in the beginning. the israeli army directly shot our colleague ali elsa moody who fell to the ground. sharon shouted, the alley was hit. alley couldn't move to the other side where we were. a colleague jumped from a high wall and was asking us to reach him, but we couldn't say sh

22000000 leaflets on red army positions. the great lie begins. gosh, the new mesquite army, bilateral, it's up put up by gun unless any malice versus calmness, norwalk, our nihilism is julianne here. the pur, awesome plan night. i believe it was 80 propaganda combining brushes while in the summer cancer in their lives were beautifully phrased. red army soldiers were cynically offered to make a choice either to perish at the hand of the indestructible german army or to surrender and returned to their families to live happily ever after. one of their goals was to turn the red army soldiers against their commanders and commissars at the blood. louis musical propaganda store, washington, sorry, i mean you though you drama was melissa beach.

we prioritize based on the army simulators in the top line. i will go back to see where that project is for 24, server. >> yes that was their number one ask we need to get them in hyper should that very much if you would. that also the line of communications bridge, can you tell me where you are in terms of the training capability? are you familiar with that? >> i'm not but i the answer that question. okay. we included in the build, report language directing you to establish a training pipeline for that program. so if you would check on that and let us know. >> yes, sir. >> thank you general. general barry, air force base is the only base that has a dual nuclear mission. but the b-52 bombers with the nuclear weapon and also icbms. we need a new weapons facility. my question is where are we in turn of the design and getting that new facility underway? >> yes senator. we agree with you. there is a need for weapons generation facility. it is not yet. as we discussed i think last year the complexity of this particular weapons generation facility h

as 2014 ukrainian army battalions, a tax ally ground. the hottest bloodiest days fell to soldiers of the vast talk battalion out of 32 defenders. only 5 survived. ah 27 lost their lives, but they held the ground. ah, soviet soldiers are buried here. the remains were found while clearing the ground of shells. ah, the ukrainian army dest tone is in the hundreds to slavic nations, are destroying each other for the benefit of the west. ah, from during that terrible cellar of 2014 ah, heavy artillery shells done thus. cities, villages bombs, full snipers, a game. ah ah ah ah! during the 2nd world war in nazi occupied poland molina was a farming region today as part of ukraine. between 19431945 members of the ukrainian insurgent army led by step on bendara. nasa could thousands of poles in valeria in a diabolical ethnic cleansing process. the mergers were particularly horrific and brutal villages were burned and property. looted the bellini. a massacre is without doubt, one of the bloodiest episodes in polish ukrainian history. why are ukraini

so you've tried the army, clamping down. not so much in the last couple of weeks, but before that, raised on the camp, confrontations are rustic men polishing. call this collective punishment. you also have, you know, in light of that context, the, the radio security establishment, the internal security establishment saying that a lot of these attacks were carried out by individuals not particularly backed by the faction. even though you will have the factions like him as soon as i'm a, she had a poor the sometimes claim responsibility retroactively. even though you know the message from the radio is that it, these attacks are far harder to, to stop and control because they do seem to be carried out by individuals. so what you've been seen happening over the last, let's say to month on and off is a targeted raise of these areas. the last attack we had last thursday was in a loud in central israel. you had 2 men from the occupied with bank village called 2 men, which is close very close to me. they entered israel and they use

s. army analyst scott bennet investigates crimes against humanity. mm. the american indians were seen as a scourge as a social pariah that needed to be expunged, expelled and exterminated from much of on the eastern seaboard them. the elimination of so called inferior races and extermination camps typical of the west. hitler had hardly come up with anything new bloemfontein. 19 o one british concentration camp, about hausman, 945, but not the extermination camps. ah, the wisdom well did fairly well living off exposing its colonies immersion power extremely profitable for the bridge. the french tried to, to copy in his books and articles. paul, craig roberts, professor of economics and well known journalist and former u. s. a. system. secretary of the treasury for economic policy analyzes the economic factors destabilizing the world. i don't think that region attribute or european colonialism to anything other than the money making the sun never set all the british empire. the college were, were everywhere, had the same powers, far, far older than no lear

so the army. ready and recent days, the media, stablish mac, they're been talking about another major cloud down if you will, in jeanene. they've been waiting up to option with the military advisors, what they need or goggle. because they want you to respond to what you've had like now 6 or 7 attacks we've been having said that the security establishment here has been paying that these attacks are carried out by individuals. not particularly have any group backing, fractional backing if you will. but you have had an increased rhetoric from policy and she had also her mass. and you do have elements of these in the camp. but of course, you know, going back to operating as a journalist, particularly male, keep time during these kinds of grades. ready it's very difficult and, you know, if you heard me say that people, we were press the market and the teams had been there. and this morning was the raid that has been they have been carrying out the out. this wasn't a major, major operation in the sense

we are seeing a brutally corrupt army. it is a reminder of the brutality and corruption of the regime and the society from which it is coming. >> ladies and gentlemen, victoria coates and elliot abrams. [applause] >> thank you, everyone for hanging in there. my name is john newland and i am here with congressman mike gallagher who just had a travel day from hell and has made it just in time. back in the day, marines went to work before 3:30 in the afternoon. >> we are on the air force schedule now. [laughter] >> >> many of you know congressman gallagher from wisconsin, member of the house armed services committee and now the house select committee on intelligence. also a writer and thinker on all the things we are talking about today, so grateful to have him talk about the things we are talking about today. we were just reminiscing outside about two seminal events that happened in this room, in the press club. i want to start with deterrence and integrated deterrence. we heard from our first panel about the need for the u.