space command. vice president pence, defense secretary mark esper, and the commander of the space command, general john redmond, joined him in the white house rose garden. [applause] >> thank you very much. it is a great honor on a beautiful day in the rose garden. please sit, thank you. resources oft all the federal government are focused on the arriving storm, i am decided to send our vice president mike pence to poland this weekend in my place. it is something very important for me to be here. the storm looks like it could be a very big one indeed. mike will be going. polishst spoken to the president and expressed my the wishes of and the american people. our highest priority is the safety and security of the people in the path of the hurricane. i will be rescheduling my trip to poland in the near future. we are gathered here in the rose garden to establish the united states space command. a big deal. command,west combatant it will defend america's vital interests in space, the next war fighting

was was commanders i mean our field grade officers lieutenant colonels colonels. who have been 2025 years you know they're career officers they sweep cases under the rug the last thing a company commander in the army wants to do is make the phone call to his or her battalion commander to say i have had a an allegation of a rape in my unit this is viewed in many cases as a failure to command that will adversely then affect their career sometimes you'd see a guy get for 5 years for selling minor amount of drugs and you'd see a guy get you know 2. weeks duty for the military hides behind this notion that it is really really hard almost impossible to prosecute rape but when you look at prosecution rates in the 2010 department of defense reports you begin with 2410 unrestricted reports and 748. what that means is they've already funneled 748 sexual assault victims into a system that has absolutely no adjudication whatsoever. then you take the 2410 that have been reported of those they identify 3223 perpetrators know what happens once you send a perpetrator over to comm

space command. he was joined by vice president pence, the defense secretary and general john rayman who was confirmed as commander of space command by the senate on june 27. this is about 10 minutes. [applause] pres. trump: thank you very much. it is a great honor. on a beautiful day in the rose garden. please sit. thank you. to ensure all resources of the federal government are focused on the arriving song, i have decided to send our vice president, mike pence, to poland this weekend in my place. it's something very important for me to be here. this storm looks like it could be a very, very big one indeed. and mike will be going. i have just spoken to president duda of poland and expressed him my warmest wishes. and he would -- and the wishes of the american people. our highest priority is a safety and security of the people in the path of the hurricane. and i will be rescheduling my trip to poland in the near future. we are gathered here in the rose garden to establish the united states space comm

and having a commander be the deciding authority you know i don't think commanders are capable of making. an object of decision i don't i do not think it should be in their hands so he was just seeking to do discretion away from yes absolutely congresswoman davis and i are both on the armed services committee there are a number of issues that you've raised that makes me want to go back and particularly take another look an emotional one individual basis what happens after a crime like that has been committed it's a very difficult thing to go through and don't think i don't know i know. the fact that you're willing to tell me your stories firsthand makes it much easier for us to go back and just say you know these are policies that we have to change it's a big it's a big big deal if you do it you really find people like you who will stand up for us thank you so much for everything they do there was to me. thank you again for your service thanks for your time mr speaker last year the military received over 3000 reports of sexual assault involving other members into service this week 17 bet

they will all fall to the lead jackson command team. making lincoln despair, could he ever find somebody who could defeat these two confederate men. up at the top, we see 1866 in jackson's cam. as i indicated in my opening statement, one of the fundamental glues that brought lee and jackson together was her undying belief and evenprotestantism as it was understood at the time. they both believed in divine providence and the idea that the war had everything under control and if you did not predestined events, he certain controlled how they ultimately unfolded. we believe there was an agency that was allowed within this understanding and people could choose to do right or wrong and if they did wrong they got spanked and that could extend the whole way off to the national level. he feared that the confederate people were not devoted enough to the lord and setting up idols of men instead of altars to the lord. jackson was concerned about this issue and he did not believe in much as the idea of human agency but believed that they controlled

the forces that moved into paris were, of course, under bradley's command and under the fifth corps commander. so, patton was not really directly involved. hey, it was all a team effort, right? he helped out by keeping the germans occupied elsewhere. sir? >> my mother was in the west. she was stationed in paris. i know she was there at the beginning of december because she was given leave to go to brussels to visit her english born aunt and cousin who had been there during the occupation. de gaulle interfered her trip, it got delayed for a few months. ofyou know when a bunch telephone operators would be in paris? not obviously a few days after this, but -- mr. laver: especially for u.s., i don't know for certain. i can't say when. american forces eventually moving it -- let me backtrack a little. eisenhower's headquarters which he established on the outskirts of paris is actually adverst versailles. that became the central brain for the rest of the allied fight in the war. there would eventually be those kind of support personnel that would show up. i'd expect not too long after he establishe

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joe, you served as commander of u.s. socom during the busiest time for our armed forces in the middle east. i wondered given the conference and its theme and this audience, if you'd start by just giving us a war fighters frank assessment of the intelligence support you received. how are we doing? what were the strengths? what were the weaknesses? what were the gaps? >> let me add my thanks to the insa leadership here. michelle, thanks for joining us here today for this panel. so you're right, i do consider myself to be a consumer and user of the products that come out of this great intelligence community we have. so from -- i think from a perspective of, you know, qualities and strengths, certainly great people. there was extraordinary integration at both of the commands, especially at sincom with the intelligence agencies. there were very clear expectations there and that was very, very good. and i benefitted from being the commander. so the focus of a lot of our efforts was in centcom. there are some challenges out the

you have joe johnston, supreme commander in the west, nominally in command because he is the senior officer present. braxton bragg is present. he has not been officially relieved from the army of tennessee command, even though he knows -- even though everyone knows he should be relieved, but he is still there. who is in charge? i don't think they ever figured it out. now, who is the one person that could referee all of this and cut that knot and solve the whole problem? jefferson davis. the fact that jefferson davis does not is a severe indictment of him as a commander-in-chief of the confederacy. call it in my book, and i do not withdraw the comment now, dereliction of duty. finally, when mrs. bragg is ready to travel, it's early april of 1863, getting on toward mid-april of 1863. the problem is now, joe johnston's virginia wounds have flared up. he's unfit for field duty. finally, when he is fit for field duty in mid april, is anything else going on in the west that might demand his attention? that's when u.s. grant runs the batteries at vicksburg, and it becomes clear that the mrs. be fr

and he had a more direct command, really, almost real direct command, of union forces in virginia during that time. he oversaw the final series of union offenses during that time that led to appomattox and lee's surrender and grant's victory. -- victory that ended the major combat of the civil war. so i wanted to look at grant from a point of view of leadership. now, i know that there are a lot of things that can go into this, a lot of things that contributed to grant's victory. and the union victory, not just grant, obviously there were other people involved. -- involved in it, too. there were material and numbers involved, and a number of good commanders and obviously the rank-and-file, without the courage and endurance of common soldiers, none of this could have happened. without the patient endurance of the folks back on the home front, none of this could have happened. and then there was the matter of numbers. here i come to what i believe is mythh -- amid popular -- a popular in some quarters, which is that grant won simply by dint of superior numbers. he had so many men that he co

and our component commanders and jt commanders have different assessment as well. so, one of the most important things you do as a commander is set the environment so there can be a dialogue, a discussion about what's happening out here and how we're assessing it and interpreting what's happening. i think that was one of the most important leadership things that people can do especially as we kind of navigate this complex environment we find ourselves in. >> i could not agree more. another great question from the audience about russian influence operations. so, how much concern do you have with russian offensive influence operations generally, but in particular, those that might be directed at u.s. troops? >> i think we should be very concerned about what russia is doing with these capabilities, both in the information environment and both in the electronic environment that can impact our weapons. we should not make any assumptions that our objectives are aligned in these particular areas here. i remain very, very earn canned about these. as we become more technolo

joint forces command, and i've commanded u.s. central command. was the one fight thing wars in the middle east. we now have a command, and have had it for quite some time, u.s. cyber command and works on that very issue. what you have now are people being promoted, ncos and officers for their skill in that very area. so what you have to do if you see technology coming forward like this, you have to organize the institution so you start promoting people based on their capability there. we have been doing that for some time. at u.s. central command, for example, if you walked into certain operations rooms, you'd see the intelligent people sitting there and then the guy who is coordinating the strikes coming off the aircraft carriers, who is coordinating strikes from the air force, who is coordinating army missiles and right next to them sit something of the cyber folks right next to them. it's like another one of the supporting arms as we integrate it all. some of the -- some of them are civiliansty higher headquarters because we have not grope tha

he really wants which is army command in the field. he has a ows up, convenient excuse to not why,ally execute the honor, mrs. bragg is with the army, liza bragg, she has drunk some with ter and is down typhoid. she can't travel for a few weeks. so johnston says mrs. bragg can't travel. can't travel to richmond then, we are going to suspend being.ders for the time for the next six weeks until 1863 here is the situation in the army of tennessee headquarters in tullahoma. have joe johnston, supreme commander in the west, nominally because he is the senior officer. he is bragg is present, not relieved from the command, everyone knows he should be, but still there. who is in charge? figured hink they ever it out. now, who is the one person that of this and all cut that knot and solve the whole problem, jefferson davis. that jefferson davis is not is a severe indictment on commander in chief of the confederacy. not l it in my book, i do withdraw the comment now, dereliction of duty. is readyhen mrs. bragg to travel, it's early april of on t

offered his welcome and thanks, to which the seventh commanding officer, former commanding officer, jonathan lockwood, responded. frolics, eight, and drink to their hearts content. after dinner, the final farewell was at hand. with the hallowed regimental governor -- hallowed regimental colors turned over to the governor, the seventh disbanded. veterans of the seventh would reside in wheeling -- who resided in wheeling before the war might have picked up a copy andhe daily intelligencer found an advertisement on page four promoting the sale of prosthetic devices and crutches, claiming they were a great improvement. three army surgeons testified to the artificial limbs, sound construction and monetary value. a one legged pennsylvania veteran a valid, "i cheerfully recommend to all of you who unfortunate to need one to give him a call." chris of company b might have been one of the early customers, having had his right leg removed more than a year earlier as a result of a gunshot wound sustained during a fight. 1864, the enlisted in 5'8" blue-eyed, black haired army hospitals until his eventua

us forces command in a commanded us central command. that was the one fighting the wars in the middle east. we now have a command and we had it for some time. let cyber command and it works on that very issue. so what you have now are people being promoted ncos and officers, both of it is skill in that very area. so what you have to do, if you see technology coming forward like this, you have to organize the institution so you start promoting people based on their capability there. we've been doing that for some time. the us central command for example, if you walked into certain operations rooms, when he would see the intelligent people sitting there and using the guy who's court naming the strikes coming off of the aircraft carriers. the when he is coordinating the strikes from the air force. the army missiles, and you would see sitting right next to them, some of the cyber folks sitting right next to them just another one of the supporting arms. we integrated at all. some of them were civilians sitting there, the higher headquarters

he prodded his commanders to accept new technologies. he had no qualms about launching risky operations into the south. he found propaganda a useful tool to undermine the border state to join the confederacy and keep the ones that remain under his control. they allowed the arbitrary and shut newspapers down. clearly, this was our president who knew how to keep a secret and knew how to operate in secret. he became the spy master for generalhe george, young napoleo, commander of all important army and at first, the entire army. he was a man who had high hopes for defeating the south quickly. this young napoleon had a huge ego, and even bigger complex. he turned out to be better at organizing and trading in army that he did at fighting with it. he brought about 22 washington from the chicago detectives, he recruited more from the army and other sources and soon was operating on $6500 a month budget which is a lot of money back then. he used the cover name, bj allen and paul hip his communications. he refused the finance officers the names o

forces command in a committed us central command.that was a one in the war in the middle east. i'd we now have a command and some for sometime the us cyber command and it works on that very issue. so we do have now, our people being promoted ncos and officers where their skill in that very area. so what you have to do, you see technology coming forward like this, you have to organize the institution so you start promoting people based on their capability there. we've been doing that for some time. the us central, and for example if you walked in to a certain operations room, you would see the intelligent people sitting there and then you would see the guy who at coordinating the strike coming off of the aircraft carriers at corn dating strikes from the air force. whose corn corn any army missiles and you'd see sitting right next to them, some of these cyber folks sitting right next to them it's like just another rhonda the supporting arms. as we integrate it all. some of the silmarillion sitting there, the hiring headquarters because

commander william h. donovan, united states navy. lieutenant commander charles a.droz iii, united states navy, retired. commander patrick dunn, united states navy. petty officer first class edward t. earhart, u.s. navy. barbara g. edwards. lute commander robert r.elseth. charles s.falkenberg. and his wife lesly a. withington. and their two children dana falkenberg. and zoe falkenberg. petty officer third class jamie l. fallon, united states navy. j. joseph ferguson. amelia v. fields. gerald p. fisher. darlene e. flagg. and her husband admiral wilson f. flagg, united states navy reserve, retired. petty officer second class matthew m.flocco, united states navy. sandra n. foster. first lieutenant richard p. gabriel, retired. captain cortez ghee. brent ta c. gibson. ronald f. ian gray. diane mckenzie. caroline b. hal mono. michelle hidenberger. sheila m.s. hyde. staff sergeant jimmy, united states army retire d. angela m. house. brady k. howell. lieutenant kernel ro nert hymel, united states air force retired. sergeant major lacey ivory,

they are the commander-in-chief.second republican or democrat if they call you and say what you toto do something you don't set up on the wall reading uyour hands or say no should i do it. just go to work if you think you're ready to do the job and roll up your sleeves and give it your best shot. now when you leave an administration over a policy difference, and you write that policy difference in a public letter and lay ite out, then you said why you left. that is all there isll to it. is over alliances and adversaries and i was upfront and i had a straightforward talk with the president he and i alone in the ovall office. even walking out of the office it was not adversarial. most people think i was doing things behind his back. was very open what i was doing we had lunch four weeks just the two of us so we have 1 million troops right now many are deployed at sea, fighting in syria tonight and in afghanistan they don't need a former cabinet official coming out to distract from what the secretary of state or defense

air force space command. i'm good at each of them do a short introduction to frame their mission and their priorities. so after we hear from them, i'll start a couple of rounds of questions. as chuck said, please get your questions ready. i've already had a few pop up on the ipad, so we certainly want to be able to answer your questions from the audience. so chris, over to you. >> take you, tish. first off, thank you do insa for hosting this incredible an important event. tish, thanks for leading the panel. again, chris dumais, one of the founders and chief technology officer for hawkeye 360. my background is in government, spent 14 years both with nsa and in a row. in fact, by lasker but boss is on the panel with me today, and from those experiences i learned quite a bit about government capabilities but more importantly i learned a lot about technology. as i learned about technology i was seeking out opportunity to create something new. the panel today will be a bit about opportunity. hawkeye 360 story is a

it would not take them long to find that enter james longstreet, second in command at gettysburg, who became a southern republican while urging reconciliation with the north and questioned lee's judgment in interviews for postwar writer william swinton's book, "the campaigns of the army of the potomac." longstreet turned out to be the postwar ex confederate group's low hanging fruit on whom they could place the blame for how the south lost gettysburg. longstreet's decision to become a postwar republican created a virtual tile --tile -- for fertile environment for criticism, including against his wartime record, where because of his unpopular political decision, accusations leveled against him could more easily be fabricated as truth. if longstreet was a traitor to the south after the war, he might have been wondering it, and especially at gettysburg. the group's first salvo against longstreet's actions at gettysburg was their allegation that lee had ordered longstreet to execute an attack against the federal left at sunrise on july 2. this was debunked as early as the mid-1870's, larg

united states air force who is the deputy commander of air force space command. i'm going to have each of them do a short introduction to frame their mission and their priorities. after we hear from them, i'll start a couple of rounds of questions. as chuck said, please get your questions ready. i've already had a few pop up on the ipad. we certainly want to be able to answer your questions from the audience. so, chris, over to you. >> all right. thank you, tish. first off, thank you to insa for hosting this incredible and important event. tish, thanks for leading the panel. again, chris demay. i'm one of the founders and the chief technology officers for hawkeye 360. my background is in government. spent 14 years both with nsa and nro, in fact, my last government boss is on the panel with me today. and from those experiences, i learned quite a bit about government capabilities, but more importantly, i learned a lot about technology. and as i learned about tech kno technology, i was seeking out opportunities to create something new. the panel today will be a bit

maybe you could speak about a new world of space command/space force. how you will deal with it and how your life will be different, if at all. >> we are already working closely with these commands as it becomes what it will be for the nation so our workforce, national geo space agency, about half of our workforce works from here in virginia. 25% in st. louis and the other 25% is globally dispersed. we have members embedded in our departments and agencies in all the commands and combat zones and it's a strength of our agency that is very connective and collaborative by nature. imagine this because we already stood out a support team for space from where we are establishing location with them so the other command we can be in the battleground meetings and here for the commander's requirements are and we can make sure we are meeting as part of our approach. back to your question on space-based, we don't solely rely on space to do our job, there's a whole big foundational aspect of knowing the earth and understanding the world that comes from all kinds of

because commander of u.s. forces in the middle east general joseph otel confirmed to congress in february he was neither informed nor consulted about the president's dismayed is correct and that's a glaring omission or not a glaring omission is too harsh that's the kind of thing that i see happening all the time in my government and every other government i deal with unfortunately people make decisions and it doesn't get out to the people in the field in time but the fact that it doesn't come through a tried and tested chain of command is that not worrying the chain of command the united states starts with the commander in chief he took the decision therefore it's a tried and true chain of command is but it's not communicated to the people who have to carry it out it was communicated to the people who carried out what you're saying is shouldn't they have provided their advice to him before hand should they have been asked for the advice they. probably should have been asked for their advice their advice was th

is that not worrying the chain of command the united states starts with the commander in chief he took the decision therefore it's a tried and true chain of command is but it's not communicated to the people who have to carry it out it's our it was communicated to the people who carried out what you're saying is shouldn't they have provided their advice to him before hand should they have been asked for the advice they. probably should have been asked for their advice their advice was that they would continue on. with a residual force as i said once the dust settled from the december decision the president listened to them and decided that he would go with a residual force. ambassador jeffrey view of views on how this disastrous war will end seem very different than disastrous war in syria and we're seeing now we're talking about not the fight against isis which was anything but now we're talking about syria but the syrian internal conflict yes you have views on how this war will end a very different from those of you picture trumpeting president i mean in may you told congress experie

so is it deputy chief or commander now? so tell me, how many police officers are assigned to hsoc and how much police resources are being committed to hsoc? >> so we have 34 officers specifically dedicated at the rank of officer at the healthy streets navigation center. that comes along with four sergeants and two lieutenants, and we have two captains currently assigned to that. in addition, we have approximately 30 officers assigned as homeless outreach officers assigned to the ten district stations. in other words, those additional 30 or so work for the stations, report to the captain, but they're part of our program at hsoc. they receive work from us every single day. they're part of the overall meeting, part of the philosophy and program. so it's roughly 70 to 75 officers working as homeless outreach officers. >> commissioner dejesus: so i know that the president of the board of supervisors has asked us to civilianize a lot of positions, and since we're told that the department is not leading the hsoc, and so for collab

the last two commanders of army recruiting command, which presumably is a key and essential position for the army, recruiting is our life blood. before they went to that job as a major general they had no recruiting experience whatsoever and they were kept in that job for two years and moved on. they were both great officers. i knew them both. but what other organization would put people in command of a recruiting operation with no prior preparation, not even like a school, here's your two-week school, learn how to recruit. it's just like hey, bud, you got this, make this work. we do that a lot in the modernization world so we bring in officers to the army staff that have had no preparation. good preparation could include being the commandant of a branch school, working in a project manager's office, working in the requirements world, we often don't do that. once we get somebody in one of those jobs they need to stay there, they need to stay there for two, maybe three, even better, four years. you -- it takes you a year to figure out what's going on and then in that second year you s

leaders could never agree to that one commander would be. it was partially a compromise. you take a glance and you can get a sense of the scale and problems inherent i also want to address our popular perception that the marine corps fault the entire war in the pacific and that the navy did pretty much everything else. the army did the vast majority of the fighting in the pacific theater and yet, all of us there is no shame in it if you believe athat as you walk through the door tonight they didn't have much of a role in the pacific because that tends to be the possible american memory. they recently made this statement they sat down and decided they would fight in europe. others might have conversations with come even though this to be the pacific. one said i didn't even know the army was in the pacific. so, that is kind of what we are up against. what i hope to do is not at all to denigrate the marine corps, quite the contrary. it's not a very big service. it was mobilized in the six divisions which is the largest it has ever been. and inc

is it running up the chain of command? we're going to have to report this and what impact does that have on your clients? >> sir, thank you. in the case to where a line vlc will meet with and consult with and have the initial meeting with the victim, if the information is presented that there could be collateral misconduct, that vlc will arrange for representation from the defense counsel there in the region locally. and, you know, the communication and interaction for the line vlcs that are out there representing their clients doesn't exist just between them and the government and the trial counsel, but with the defense bar as well. in a case to where there would be a potential exposure for that individual, it's not for the victim's legal counsel to represent and advise on potential misconduct. it's going to be for that victim's defense counsel if one is ultimately made available. >> the process is similar in the navy. as far as your question regarding how that's dealt with, it really depends on the victim on the collater