playing that role, and also it entered its period of decline, as it became the weary titan, as aaron freedberg reside book title refer toilets, they had someone to pass off that responsibility to. the united states of america. and the problem we have is there's nobody for us to pass this off to. and so we kind of are trapped in that regard. we have got to these commitments we have to maintain. one this will was that most challenging was to hear the cno tell us and previous penals that at the current rate of build for shipbuilding in the u.s. navy we're not going to have a large enough nave you to maintain our basic presence mission in the western pacific, which is now coming under pretty serious challenge because of the rise of chinese military power and double digit defense budget increases every year. i commend to everybody the most recent report of the congressional china commission that has enormous amount of detail about this buildup and why everyone should really be concern about it. it does explain a little bit about china's more aggressive posture towards its neighbors over the last th