what he learned was how not to mobilize and equip an air force. after the war, america retreated across its protective oceans and demobilized. there was no stomach in america for large standing military forces. arnold went back to being a captive and yet posted out west, demonstrating air power by doing things like racing carrier pidgeons to deliver members. another veteran of the first world war was a second lieutenant named stuart simmington who got out and went into industry. two short decades later darkness descended again over europe and asia. in the second world war, america mobilized the life of its people and industry and chose again to confront evil. by then general hap arnold was in charge of building american air power. stewart symington was one of the leading industrialists who would build the equipment needed by this new source and after the second world war, america game to the hard realization that the vast ocean surrounding us could not protect us any more. america made a choice, a decision to build enduring alliances, to maintain a

air force to transform the united states air force. gentlemen, these except our great thanks for your presence here today. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> air force secretary heather wilson addressed the air force association conference on monday. we wish you as much of her remarks as a cat until today's session present at 1 p.m. eastern. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> doing something for a purpose. we gather here as ehrman deeply committed to the defense of our country with -- thank you for your continued service to us all. and, of course, larry spencer, thank you for your leadership of afa. it's been quite a year since the last afa conference, and for that i want to publicly thank my wing man, our chief of staff david goldstein and his wife. thank you for your good advice, your sense of purpose and your wonderful sense of humor. and to our chief master sergeant of the air force kaleth wright and his wife. this guy just keeps fixing things. you are a role model for us all, chief, but i'm not going to volunteer to be tased. [laughing] doing something for a purpo

the air force has been on the record opposing any kind of space force that takes it out of the air force or within the air force. wester the proposal was to create a space corps. that would have kept it under secretary wilson but she was adamantly opposed to that at the time of the hill. are folks inthere air force that do not like this idea at all. is, it looksimate like they are trying to come out with an estimate to shift the debate into how expensive this is going to be. >> is this point to compete with the air force's other plan to completed squadron? how much money is there in the budget for both? mind if this came to pass, it is still under the total dod budget. point it competes with all of the services equally, not just the air force. the air force challenge and the plan to grow the force, i think that the biggest competitor to growing the size of the air .orce is the own modernization i don't see how the air force is going to be will to grow the force and modernize at the same time, given any kind of realistic fiscal constraints. >> they are going to be looking at both initiati

in air force history. how about that? [applause] okay. thank you very actually welcome to our last day. this is really been great and so we really appreciate you all being here and we really have a great panel for you today, essentially a lot of the leadership of the air force, most of the leadership of the air force, , and which was exciting today is we saved the last day, we pulled out all the stops. we saved all the money we had until the end and we went out and hired the most expensive, most talented emcee we could find, so general goldfein is going to emcee this morning picks on just going to kick this thing off but good morning. welcome to today and we have some fantastic speakers for you. really looking forward to it. there are several commanders here that you are all familiar with, so let me introduce them very quickly. we have lieutenant general scobee, lieutenant general rice, lieutenant general mcmurray, lieutenant general kwast, lieutenant john webb, chief wright -- get a simcox no, he's not. o

what we want our air force to look like as we go forward. one of the considerations for commander of the air combat command is the fighter shortages --hortage of spirits fighter shortage of experienced fighter pilots. right now we are manning our squadrons. we don't have people on our stats. i don't have people who can take a problem and think it through to a conclusion and help us decide what the future should be for our fighter immunity. so that's a larger change in the air force, if we ask enlisted members to fill those positions on our staff and to work through that part of it. the classic answer is, right now we do not have a shortage of people that want to start pilot training. enlistedeople, former airman that pursued a commission and have gone to flight school and performed exceptionally well, and i'd like to help anybody interested in doing that and offer them a path to doing that as part of the applicant pool we have. our problem is retaining people passed the end of their commitment to stick around and become experienced pilots tha

air force. here is the concept. we go put out some of our hardest problems that will require exceptional innovation and put out the solicitation and we will take in what amount to white papers from anyone. small business is primarily. we do a very quick review and invite leaders of those companies to come and make their pitch. they make it directly to the program executive office and program management. the idea is that it it is a good idea -- if they have a good technical solution that is worth supporting even with small amounts of money, with a one-page contract, they will walk out with a contract and funds that day. that is the kind of speed of business that small business really needs to be able to work with a large entity like the u.s. air force. we are committed to moving forward with those kinds of arrangements. the third area they would highlight is the way that we are trying to buy things faster and smarter and it has to do with prototyping and experimentation. in 2016 and 2017, the congress put new provisi

we have the air force, the navy's air force, the army's air force, and we have the navy's army's air force which is the marine corporation. why do we have all of this, right? a lot of times they're buying similar platforms, you know, but they're buying them separately. a lot of redundancy in there but that's by design, right? it's good that they're trying these efficiency initiatives, but experience says you can't bank on a savings. one of the things they said with this budget release over the past year, i think jay gibson was on the record, the chief management officer, of saying that they were planning on $46 billion in efficiency savings over the next five years. that's baked into their budget. they're already assuming that. if they can't generate 46 billion in efficiencies over the next five years, then they either have to come back and ask for $46 billion more in funding, or they have to find $46 billion in cuts. so that was an ambitious target. and they said targets for fy18 and fy19 which they don't even seem close to meeting, but the big thing looming for 2019 and beyond, they

the air force has declined. when they went to war in the persian gulf and i was on the national security council's staff and never have come home. never came home. so 27 straight years of combat operations with the united states air forces engaged. they had 134 fighter squad rons and today we have 55. the pace of operations is one of the things that is driving the difficulty of retention of a crew. we are burning out our people. we took the first piece of the study and the interim report to congress. we promised them in the august/september time frame and that looks up. that study looks at what those national defense strategy asks us to do and how we best do it with war gaming and model simulation and what would that general mix of forces be? that was the first piece of it. we decided to share that not only with the congress and more publicly last week, it is not intended to influence the budget. it is it a long- term view and how the threat is changing. so that the air force can provide a sense of where we thin

air force in europe, u.s. africa allied air command. general john raymond, commander air force space command. timothy ray, and lieutenant general brad webb, commander air force special operations command. the rules of engagement for this session are as follows. each speaker will make a presentation and then we'll take questions from the audience if there is time. believe it or not, we're going to be 21st century here and you can text your questions in to a number that should be up on the screen at some point. with that, let me give the floor to general walters and let him start. >> thanks, secretary peters. and behalf of all of us certainly for this panel, we want to thank you for your service as our secretary, undersecretary and for that moment for this very second for all you've done for our nation. it's great to be back in your company. albeit it's in washington d.c. and i must say to this crowd prefer being 4700 miles away in central europe. i want to pass a shout out to our wing commanders and chiefs that represent the wings. where

the question is what do we want our air force to look like as we go forward in the future. one of the considerations for the commander of air combat command is the fighter pilot shortage is a shortage of experienced 11-s. it's a shortage of experienced fighter pilots. right now, we're still manning our squadrons. we don't have people on our staffs. i don't have people that can take a problem and think it through to a conclusion and help us decide what the future should be for our fighter community. so that's a larger change in the air force if we're going to ask enlisted members fill those positions on our staffs and work through that. the classic answer is right now, we do not have a shortage of people who want to start pilot training. we have people, former enlisted airmen who have pursued a commission and gone to flight school and performs exceptionally well, and i would like to help anybody interested in doing that and offer them a path to do that. as part of the applicant pool we have. our problem is retaining people past the end of their commitment to stick around and

in air force history. how about that? [applause] okay, thank you. welcome to our last day. this is really been great and so we really appreciate you all being here and we really have a great panel for you today, essentially a lot of the leadership of the air force, most of the leadership of the air force and which was exciting today is we saved the last day, we pulled out all the stops. we saved all money we had to the end and we went out and hired e most expensive, most talented mc we could find. so general goldfein will mc this morning sun just going to kick this thing off. good morning and again welcome to the date and with some fantastic speakers for you. really looking forward to it. several commanders at here that you are all familiar with, so let me introduce them very quickly. we have lieutenant general scobee, lieutenant general rice, lieutenant general mcmurray, lieutenant general kwast, lieutenant general webb, chief right? did i see him? no, he's not, okay. he's a cowboy fan so we understand th

in air force history. how about that? ok, thank you. welcome to our last day. this has been great. we really appreciate you all being here. we really have a great panel for you today. essentially, a lot of the leadership of the air force. most of the leadership of the air force. ist is really exciting today we save the last day, we pulled out all the stops. we saved all the money we had. until the end. we went out and hired the most expensive, most talented mc we could find. the general is going to mc does what appeared i'm going to kick this thing off. good morning. welcome. we have some fantastic speakers for you. really looking forward to it today. there is several commanders here that you are all familiar with. let me introduce them very quickly. lieutenant general scobee. rice. mcmurray. cost. web. chief. he is not. ok. he is a cowboy fan -- fan. we understand that. he has another speech. general miller, general ray. brown. homes. raymond. walters. wilson. goldstein. an all-star panel 40 this morning.

and if i use an example of every one of the projects, whether it's people, army, navy, air force, or pecial forces, all of those projects have to be phased in time when the money is available and thin the capacity of even our government to sustain. because even in some cases, the pipeline and the government approval processes this plan could even top the entire pipeline for defense. there's a lot of government departments to wa departments to weave in there. specifically, what the policy has directed is you will defend and protect those capabilities. that means a lot more than what you might think and i'll talk about that briefly. we're investing in capabilities that will highlight specific direction. you will work with partners and national interests on space issues. you'll provide leadership where you can and influencing those international norms and responsible behavior. that's to everyone's benefit. and then a lot of cost -- world class rnd and a lot of integration collaboration with the united states. you can see defense on the left. that's probably what most people think about i

air force space command and royal canadian air force space command discussed how the two countries can work together on military and security operations in space. the wilson center organized the conference. >>> okay. well, thank you so much. i'm really excited to see this audience just kind of got filled all of a sudden by a bunch of military people, so that's very cool. so i have the honor to introduce our two guests today, our two panelists. so i'm going to start with brigadier general kevin wale. he's the director general and component commander for space for the canadian defense ministry. he brings with him a really diverse military background that starts in 1986. and over the years, he's flown a bunch of rotor craft, including the kiowa, the twin huey, the apache. he's had a number of staff positions, such as training in headquarters, he's done a ton of work in engaging with allies in exchange for the u.s. army that landed him at ft. hood, texas, and integrating special aviat n aviations attachments in afghanistan, and somehow now he's landed himself doing space operations. so let

but the air forces well on the way to do its part and build air men.ou just have to use the resources we have available and a much better question and the reason that i wanted to spend time on the topic with you today is, what are you doing to build a more resilient air men? yes, i am talking to you. don't look at your neighbor or super visor or spouse, you. sp. you. so too often, we talk about when we talk about the challenges we face, the channllenges our children face, the challenges our teammates face. the challenges or friends face. we always begin with this description of the world or this description of the air force. i'm doing so bad, i'm in this situation, and if the air force cared more about its people, if we had more resources, if there was a better program, if i had a better supervisor. we think about all the things that we believe have contributed to our situations, and we overlook and, frankly, sometimes we ignore what we have done to contribute to our own condition. so before we go any further, let's be clear, you are the place you need

[laughter] >> on behalf of the air force association welcome to 2018 air, space and cyber conference. the air force has come a long way, the air force represents diverse and young military service who's culture is constant evolution as i'm confident anyone who has ever served in a position of air force command or leadership will agree nothing and absolutely nothing matters if families aren't supported and care for in a way that recognizes them as the most important element of our air force. we are excited to bring you this air force senior leader town hall meeting focusing on some of the important issues faced by airmen and family, faa is proud to present opportunity with interaction of the senior leadership of air force and amazing spouses. on stage we have chief master sergeant of the air force and his wife tonya. [cheers and applause] >> chief of staff and wife dawn. [cheers and applause] >> secretary of the air force heather wilson and husband jay holmes. [cheers and applause] >> these leaders are here to participate in a dialogue with you about issues important to you and your fa

[applause] ♪ ♪ >> air force secretary heather wilson addressed the air force association conference ony. we wish you as much of her remarks as a cat until today's session present at 1 p.m. eastern. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> doing something for a purpose. we gather here as ehrmanee

the air force will change to keep up with it.op your problem-solving skills and put your mask on first. take care of yourself physically, mentally, spiritually. let me leave you with a few more of my heroes who helped give me a sense of purpose. this is airman first class magill duarte. he dreamed of being an airmen, and airmen. and he realized the treatment only for a short time. he was in tactical training at sheppard air force base to become ac-130 crew chief. last june he was diagnosed with cancer. once the cancer sit in, it was aggressive. it was rapid. within a few months he transitioned to hospice care back at home in new york. and, sadly, he passed away on friday. but until the end he was positive, he was proud to be an airmen. he never stopped fighting. i i regret i didn't get to personally meet him, but i was able to send in a small token and a short handwritten note, letting him know that we were pulling for him. we were proud of him. we were proud of his courage and we were proud of his training. i believe he never fe

twenty one thirty nine a colonel low these are really air force informed the russian command in syria and why is the de confliction channel about the upcoming air strike. she said that within the next few minutes israel would attack some industrial facilities in northern syria. in one minute's time at twenty one forty four israeli sixteen jets dropped g.b.u. thirty nine guided bombs targeting industrial facilities in the province. thus israel did not inform the russian forces about its operation in advance but rather the shooting warning simultaneously with the beginning of this strike which constitutes a breach of the existing agreements. these actions constitute a clear violation of the twenty fifteen russian is really agreements to prevent clashes between our armed forces in an over syria that were reached by the joint working group which. here you can see the positions of the aircraft at the moment of the strike captured by the plot all system. russia's solution aisle twenty is represented by the a red mark on the map and for israel f. sixteen jets by yellow ones. i would like to

like the air force. i could talk about this a long time. i'm in a give you the short version of this. in large organizations it is about decision-making and one of the problems. >> let me just back up one more piece. what you really want is scale and nimbleness. so if you take the u.s. air force one way to make it nimble is to make it much smaller. but that's a really bad solution. it brings some the advantages. and i see the same thing at amazon. because of our scale we can do things that we just couldn't have done has a garage startup. there are some things only big organizations can do. i was a garage startup. but you can't build a boeing 787 in your garage. so we want scale. and you and never trade the scale of the u.s. air force for anything the question becomes how do i keep the advantages of the scale and still have the advantages of a nimble startup. i want to be able to absorb a punch and i want to be able to dodge a punch because of my nobleness. >> while the way you state nimble is by making d

all of the stuff about the air force not supporting this, that is crazy, the air force was supported and you cannot find another space warrior, there is no way we could have developed leaders like the ones we have and all of the other space warriors without having institutional support from the air force. they grew them, promoted them and put them in position. here's the thing, right now, i believe when you go to a service, you are talking about offense of operations and their domain. space power, how would you do offense of operation. i don't believe the united states is saying we want to go -- we don't want to have on orbit space weapons that drop and provide support. i just don't think the united states is willing to go to that level. that is why i think this is all about fighting the constellation while under attack. getting the operators to think about every day how they would respond to these attacks. i would actually argue when you go to a space force it would be when and if offensive operations from space and support of terrestrial forces. at that point, i think you might nee

air force. let me also say that i think it's a very good thing that this subject is being talked about publicly. and i'm very, very reassured by the fact that the government is talking about these, the department of defense is talking about this. the executive branch all the way up to and including the president of the united states from our economy to our scientific advancements to our national security and they've all been expressing their concern about why some steps have to be taken and why it is that we need to act and i won't go back over that. i agree that csis, unclassified publications does a great job there. they also acknowledge that the pace of technology is going faster than our acquisition system has been able to assimilate. and they acknowledge, and i think this is right, time is not necessarily on our side here. i think that we assumeled during the cold war that our space assets would be threatened by the then soviet union, but the difference is that today, the loss of our space

force. you know, we had to figure out a long time ago how to integrate air, land and sea. put a joint force together that does that pretty darn well. actually better than anybody on the planet has ever done it before. now we have to do air, land, sea, space, cyber. we have to do all that together. it's the same problem. we just haven't done it so we have to step forward and figure out how to walk into that problem. so it's not different. how does it impact stratcomm, does it require a stratcomm reorganization? we're actually going to explore that over the next little while. as we stand up u.s. space command. use the standup space command as the opportunity to experiment in different construct. we're going to set up exercising involving the joint staff, other commands who will walk through how do we do that? we'll explore. i don't think it does. i think it's an issue of command, authorities and responsibilities. as you look at the other questions, it's also interesting to watch what some of our competitors have done. china. three, four years ago, they formed a strategic sup

a lot of what we do is we help by augmenting our air force customer and our air force partner by supplying highly qualified men and women to be instructors to do training management and to do training records and today, we're a big player on programs like the kc-135 and the c-130 and the variances of the c-130. and the remotely piloted aircraft and the m-2 and now the m-29 and there are other programs we participate in, but in some cases it's we're not there and nor can we replace the uniformed members who have a role to train and also evaluate the younger members of the service because we know there's a lot more going on in that military school or in that training than the rudder skills. this is where members are being assimilated into the service and it will be the first contract with the military culture and ethos. we are very careful to make sure that we are a very solid contributor and overstepping the boundaries of what makes sense in the context of a military flight training enterprise. when i look to the future we find more and more opportunities and we're finding this is the busin

with the air force, they have the f-35. as we discussed before, congress keeps adding more planes for the total f-35 program than is requested each year. that is a sign the program has a lot of political support now. it probably helps that it is built in the dallas-fort worth area and a representative of --t area is on the house chair of the house defense committees would has some high-level backing there. whether the air force wants to win, they will continue along their current plan with the f-35 and maybe continue to get plus ups from congress. the bomber i think is pretty well protected program right now because you see the air force leadership coming out, saying not only do we need it, we need more of them. know, it is, you not going to get the same level of public scrutiny because so much of it is classified. programs that is probably at some risk is the ground-based strategic deterrent, the new icbm. adam smith, again, with the house flips, he could be the chairman of the house services committee. he has expressed so

was the air force we could afford, not the air force we need.e need to set out for our countrymen what is the air force we need to do the job that the nation has asked us to do. >> and now in terms of how you are building and fortifying the air force right now and given also the fact that there is a focus on cost throughout the broader department of defense, how are you looking to do this >> well, the congress has given us some new authorities for prototyping experimentation and to move things faster and weaver doing that across the board. in space we have a half billion dollar consortium where we have 188 companies, 124 of them have never even done business with the air force before we put out a solicitation and we're going from solicitation to contract to award in 93 days we're about to change the way we engage small business where we do a solicitation, they give us a short concept, we invite them in and it's one day from they do their pitch and they walk out with a signed contract, a one-page contract and the funds. so if you get a paypal acc

our capabilities are built under a joint construct in their hand to the air force and we are certainly all in taking a leadership role in this domain. no functional leadership on air and space. if i look -- if i drop it up my canadian space operations center. you you see the os so, canadians in u.s. unit for my space operations center is integrated in my command center, the equivalent of our cocom command. in the bottom left we have joint space supports team so we deploy subject matter expert to advise our forces and coalition forces to give them links back into all of the space capabilities we are integrated in. the bottom center a lot of interaction with industry partners and certainly other government departments like certainly the canadian space agency, economic development and others. in a year in a house when you get into the space business, low-level of interdependent is just off the charts. the right and the purple or the other internal organizations that also contributed to the canadian armed forces space commission. canadian army and navy individuals posted on my staff critic

it took the air force, what, 30 years, 40 years to become an air force. and god knows there was an enormous amount of arm wrestling. i'm concerned that a time when i think our opponents are making great strides in changing the dynamic of reliable access to space, that we're going to spend a hell of a lot of time arm wrestling with each other in washington. each of you have different perspectives on that. bob, let me start with you, just to ask what -- you arbitrated at deputy secretary over a lot of contending forces. what does this mean to create kind of an open-ended competition for status and turf? >> i assume you're talking to bob? >> i'll start with you, bob. >> what would happen. the department would try to count up all of the moneys and resources being devoted to the space mission and capabilities as it could possibly do. be as accurate as it could. if you created a separate space force, that would be their initial budget share of the department. now, you have to ask yourself, is that the right budget share? you would have to then debate that. and

to transform the united states air force. gentlemen, please accept our great thanks for your presence here today. [ applause ] ♪ >>> american history tv is in primetime this week on c-span3. tonight a symposium on the concept of liberty. exploring how the ideas of freedom, law, and liberty have changed throughout history. wednesday, on "oral histories," our women in congress series continues with former congresswoman lynn woolsey and nancy johnson. thursday, "historians" looks at the role of espionage in u.s. conflicts over the past century and a half. and on friday, on "real america," the world war ii film series "why we fight" about the outbreak of world war ii to pearl harbor and the rise of authoritarianism in italy, germany, and japan. watch american history tv this week in primetime on c-span3. >>> swrks spc-span's "washingto journal" with news that impacts you. coming up wednesday, the wilson center's laura dawson and duncan wood discuss the nafta renegotiation and u.s.-canada-mexico relations. then "the hill" correspo

air force for anything. but the question becomes, how can i keep the advantage of the scale but still have the advantages of the nimble startup? i want to be able to absorb a andh, because of my scale, i want to be able to dodge a punch because of my nobleness. well, the way you stay nimble is by making decisions fast. in a 20-person startup company, the decision-making speed is so quick, and that's why they're so nimble. in a big organization like the air force, that decision-making has a tendency to speed. you get high-quality decisions. i think sometimes people think the decisions are low quality. i don't think so. i think you get high-quality decisions, you just get them slowly. so the way to fix that in a large organization is we acknowledge that there are two types of decisions. there are decisions that are two-way doors. they are decisions where if you make a decision and you walk through the door and it turns out you made the wrong decision, you turn around and come back. and the consequence of that

secretary's discussion of the air force we need and the chief assessment of how we will fight that force so i want to talk about the airmen we need. the national defense strategy tells us we need a lethal resilience and rapidly adapting joint force. so i believe airmen we need today should have four distinct characteristics, first and foremost well-trained . john griese and madeleine fire said there's no such thing as tough, it's either trained oruntrained . i would say the foundation of readiness and lethality is that every airman is really good at their job. if you're a bomber pilot, and avionics maintainer, an analyst, defender, current aviator, you name it. i think our cfm's are getting after proctoring the right type of training, our supervisors and commanders are executing and i think we're doing a good job across the full spectrum of military training from bmp to red flag, the training is good. we also need to be well led. university general cotton is in the process of revamping each level of our enlisted pne. anymore readiness, lethality, more joint operations, we're improving th

britain also had an air force, an air force outnumbered 10-1 by the enemy, both in men and machine. there was britain herself. the people of britain. the people who were to be terrorized and forced to surrender. they knew every man, woman, and child would be hitler's target in the onslaught that could come at any moment. they knew they had a job to do and not much time to do it. in. the young, the not so young, and the old. the clerk, the butcher, the farmer, the members of parliament, they formed a civilian army, britain's home guard. they started from scratch. ♪ experience, equipment, supplies, all were scarce. only one shallow fire at each practice. the women of britain refused to be left out. >> we are in this, too. we will put up the barrage balloons. man the guns. we will run the railroads and get the trains through on time. ferry the planes. carry the dispatchers. drive the ambulances and run the buses. and we well see that our men are fed and do not go hungry. ♪ >> others worked. men and women alike. they worked full-time, overtime, doubletime, 40 hours a week, 50, 60, 70. h

moody air force base, we have the us air force search and rescue passage with two hc 30 and four search and rescue as they are requested. we have additional search and rescueteams that moody that came from patrick air force base .tyndale air force base, representative the broader duties to support hurricane florence, first air force applied control, air operations support as well as assisting in vital search and rescue efforts to include airborne assets such as the joint start ea under north, authority. wehave quite literally surrounded the expected affected area with dod capability that will be critical and hours and days following the storm's impact . i've shown you the robust capabilities and the capacity dod has to respond immediately. if you look at the graphic, with went quite literally from arlington that are going to follow the storm in all the way through the army and the support we have with the people that are going to be able to be used in a high water situation and literally surrounding this affected area and the department of defense is ready to respond when asked from the

a very diverse country and very diverse air force. what role does diversity play in innovation, not just rice, ethnicity or gender, but also background. >> i think all those types of diversity play a role in innovation. and what i have seen -- the kind of invention i do every day, and it's going to be similar here because of the size of the organizations and the size of the things you're trying to accompli accomplish, this is team invention. by the time we end up -- echo s is -- you know, the echo alexa speaker is an example of an invention that no customer asked for. if we had gone to customers six, seven years ago, when we put echo on the drawing board, customers would say look, would you buy a black cylinder that you plug into the wall in your kitchen and you can ask it what time it is, set timers, they would have been like, no. i will not buy that and so we invented that but it wasn't there was no single person who invented it, it was team invention. people come at these things because of their diverse backgrounds which does inclu

blamed israel after russian military plane was shot down off the syrian coast and claims the israeli air force twenty aircraft with fifteen personnel on board as cover from syrian air defenses for israeli fighter jets had been targeting syrian facilities in the province of latakia. so nothing to do but. on the seventeenth of september at around ten pm four israeli fighter jets launched guided bombs on syrian military facilities near the city of latakia the bombing occurred in the immediate vicinity of where the russian aisle twenty was coming in to land the israeli jets deliberately created a dangerous situation israeli pilots use the russian plane as cover against the syrian air defense systems as a result the russian oil twenty was brought down by a syrian air defense missile there's no way israeli pilots could not have seen the russian plane. the israeli military says it has no reaction to the incident does not comment on what it calls for and reports meanwhile russia's ministry of foreign affairs has summoned israel's ambassador over what exactly happened off the coast of syria or earlier

knock out the royal air force. get control of the air.the low countries and france. destroy communication and transport lines. above all, take command of the air. phase 2, pulverize the coastline with dive bombers. take over the airfields. phase 3. the actual invasion. for german panzer divisions cross under an umbrella of protecting fighter planes. then, send spearheads of arm might to divide, surround and destroy all opposition. that's all there was to it. conquer britain. force the surrender of the british fleet. then, with the combined seapower of germany, britain, england, france and spain, he could control the seas and tell us where to head. on the invasion coast, more than 100 fully equipped german divisions are seen, singing the song, we are sailing against england, as they awaited the word from hitler. here, four weeks, all the supplies and weapons of the [null] war machine had been turned toward britain. ♪ >> the jaws of the [null] whale were set to swallow jonah. and how about jonah, how was he doing? well, britain also had an

i am an air force officer. force and its relationship with spaces part of the conversation here but i want to remind you, i am not a pilot. five of the last six commanders of air force space command have not been pilots. the other one was but he was a space shuttle pilot. a view is anyone who has been satellite is clear to command people who fly them. since the space commission in 2001, all of the commanders of space command have not been pilots except for kevin chilton. know, an air force guy, but i do not come from that background of the aviation piece of the air force. i think it say that is a very good thing that this subject is being talked about publicly. i am very reassured by the fact that the government is talking about these. all the way up to and including the president, they are talking about the importance of space to our economy, scientific advancements, national security. they have all been expressing their concern about why some steps have to be taken and why it is we need to act. sagree that the

you been aboard air force one. at this point from your perspective? >> for the republicans, the republican majority, the strategy in this election is to talk to the american people because there is a whole untold story as far as the impact of the republican majority and our record of results. we saw it again today in the numbers, where we see more jobs being created. we have a record low unemployment. president obama said two years ago that this was a new normal, that gdp growth would never go above 2% and we needed to get used to this new normal as americans. but yet we are exceeding all expectations, it's a great stor story. >> harris: we will bring you back, we will be right back. thank you. until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. you might or joints.hing for your heart... but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier bra

air force for anything.comes how do you keep the advantages of scale and still have the advantages of a nimble startup how do i get the nimbleness, too? i want to be able to absorb a punch because of my scale and i want to be able to dodge a punch because of my nimbleness >>> at a 0 it-person startup company the decision-making speed is so quick and that's why they are so nimble, and then in a big company or in a big organization like the air force, that decision making has a sendity to speed you get high quality decisions i think sometimes people think the decisions are low quality. i don't think so i think you usually get high quality decisions. you just get them slowly which is be a problem so the way to fix that in a large organization, this is what we do at amazon is we acknowledge that there are two types of decisions. there are decisions that are -- we call them two-way doors they are decisions where if you mick a decision, you walk through the door and it turns out that you made the wrong decision, y

we owe it to the air force to do both. now i'd like to address modern decision.odern zpags is about retooling for great power competition something we haven't done since president reagan was in office. just like we need stealth bombers and precision guided missiles during the cold war. we need a next generation of weapons to counter chinese and russian threats. the next critical step is to build the fy-2020 strategy driven budget. it's more than a budget request. it captures technology to fielding. with outcomes and time lines necessary to dominate a new era of great power competition. don't tell me your strategy, tell me your budget and i'll tell you what your strategy is. now is a time to make choices about what we will and won't do. those choices will determine what our military looks like for the next 50 years, and we've got 20 weeks to complete it. today we are working across the services and industry to demonstrate technologies listed in the mds before we move rapidly to field them. hypersonics is a good example. the air force signed an agreement with the a

air force officials and state department officials. three weeks of debriefings in maryland, followed by a senate select committee meeting in downtown washington, dc. three of the senators on this committee that reviewed my father's case were prescott bush, president bush's grandfather, barry goldwater out of arizona and senator russell, which the house office building is now named after him in downtown dc. they had eight hours of deliberations and questions back and forth. at the end, my father is given a standing ovation. basically, a pat on his back. good job for your country. he has been exonerated. but, the misinformation continued to circulate and even today it continues to circulate. it is one of the reasons i want to have this book published, which is titled, letters from a soviet prison. it has a forward from sergei crew chef. we have been friends for 20+ years. he was a professor at brown university when i met him and since that time we have been on several panel discussions and lecture venues together around the country. he a

the coast of syria that's according to the russian defense ministry is claiming that the israeli air force used the i o. twenty as cover from syrian air defenses missiles from which hit the russian plying fifteen crew members died as a result for israeli fighter jets have been targeting syrian facilities in the taqiyya province at the time. so now suppose it would help on the seventeenth of september at around ten pm for israeli fighter jets launched guided bombs on syrian military facilities in the city over the taqiyya the bombing occurred in the immediate vicinity of where the russian aisle twenty was coming in to land the israeli jets deliberately created a dangerous situation the israeli pilots used the russian plane as cover against the syrian air defense systems as a result the russian oil twenty was brought down by a syrian air defense missile there's no way the israeli pilots could not have seen the russian plane. israeli military confirms its jets targeted syrian facilities but blame the planes downing on the syrian government itself along with iran and hezbollah which israel vie

some may call it highly from a member of the pakistan air force k this his reaction to the incident but what as a former air crew as a form of fly i can analyze and give you my personal opinion i could be wrong but i believe that you see in this particular case there is a possibility that russia is right that to this big radar the shadow of the twenty was used as a cover by the for attacking israeli f. sixteen fighter aircraft because please remember that in february for the first time an israeli f. sixteen was shot down by a similar missile and this time there is a chance that they may not be building to take the risk of you know facing the fire coming from the syrian side and then they have taken cover off the aircraft now you see i've flown in that area and i know very well that there are there are a radar can contact our villa below the israelis must be monitoring it and there are israeli controllers who speak the russian language they could have formed this particular aircraft but the one in which game only a minute short of it was far too late that means that the die had been cast