th is how the department of defense looks at two or three different levels, the strategic level. how does it change the outlook with regard to the kind of strategic relationsnships we hae out there? one of the things melanie mentioned in terms of food and water security affect things like sick -- affect things like stability, could exacerbate tensions between existing adversaries who may have significant levels of armaments that could cause real challenges for us and our allies around the world. at the operational level, as well. our effects need to do humanitarian assistance come our effects need to prepare our allies and partners to do that, and how it may change the actual operating environment in terms of weather conditions we need to operate in. it is very near term, how it is going to affect our existing installations and training and readiness issues. sea already seeing rising levels and other kinds of conditions affecting our ability to operate on a day to day basis. and to the extent that is true we neeeed to take that into consideration with how it affects the relative o

when we make the department of defense a more attractive place to join across the board, the virtue of service becomes a more worthwhile endeavor for military and civilian families ike. our force of the future should be family focused, parents in uniform who never feel like they have to choose between pursuing a promotion and supporting the family. to give families more flexibility, we are expanding maternity and paternity leave, and we are creating on ramps and off ramps between active-duty and the reserves, so our personnel don't have to get an derail their careers to get an advanced degree or have a family. we are looking at fewer moves, fewer first days of the new kid in the school. to give families more opportunity, we make sure that serving in uniform does not mean you have to trade in your aspirations to wear a cap and gown, if that is what you want to do. the g.i. bill has helped over 1.11 million americans go to college. those benefits are transferable to family members. we are looking for ways to make it work even better. those are just a few of the ways that we are working h

now, the department of defense has given a lengthy statement to us about this saying there's a difference of community outreach and recruit m. and it really is a case where it might be in the eye of the beholder but this practice should be coming to an end because of the work of mccain and flake in the new defense bill and that could outlaw this practice for good. kate? >> all right.

by 2001, we were so confident in the overwhelming military capacity and capability of the department of defense that we would be able to win two conventional wars within 90 days. now since 2001, there's been a c change. in terms of historical period, you look back -- we will look back from 2001 to 2015 and say, wow, what a change. over that 14 to 15 years, the capacities and capabilities of our closest allies uniformly started to decline. and the capabilities and capacities of our potential competitors all began to rise. rather dramatically. now my bosh, ash carter, likes to say we used to have three contingencies we would worry about. by this time it was iran, china, and north korea. now we have to worry about a potential contingency with russia, an article v defense of our nato allies. we go from three contingencies to four contingencies in three short years and now have a condition, a global counter terrorist campaign which is increasingly defined by fighting against isil. in the middle east and northern africa and western africa. so we've gone from three contingencies to four contingencies

parts of the sign dhs responsible for the resiliency, the department of defense and then the department of justice who is responsible for criminal activity. what secretary gates said is you have those three talking about the same domain, and you can go quickly from a non- nationstate actor. you have to have wargames and we have to go through that. we have to organize it and we do not have the legislation. >> are you suggesting -- suggesting we should organize within the department of defense? >> it must have a key, if not the lead role. when push comes to shove and down to follow someone has to respond it is the defense department. if our nation is under attack they are the ones that will be held accountable. >> thank you. you wrote about the dangers and how our adversaries be able to exploit what our military does take you explain or suggest what we might do to respond to that. the ability to take large amounts of data, but there is also an element of transparency. we have seen this transformed domestic policing. this era of ubiquitous smart phones, and i worry that armed forces of the

breath in the depth of where we operate the department of defense is without a doubt a large tip of the largest and most complex global corporation on the planet. we have a very very simple mission to organize, train and equip a joint force that is ready for and operated forward to preserve the piece. so how do we accomplish this very simple, straightforward mission in the age of everything? well, we do it like we have always done, try to take the ends of our foreign policy and supporting national security strategy, balance them left with the resources were means that are made available to us by national leaders, and try to come up with the best balance between what we have to do in the world took on the show mission with the resources available. i hope what you have heard today is that this is becoming far more difficult and happening on both ends of the equation. both on terms of the ends as well as the means. but by my view, the cold war ended may 12,12th, 1989. that is when president bush announced from a programmatic perspective that the department of defense would no longer view c

of different initiatives. the defensive innovation experimental units in silicon valley to provide a point of big innovation engines in the valley to come to the departmentf defense and say, we have a solution to some of your problems and for us to build them and say, they have a problem do you have solutions for us? we are experimenting with the a model that to the intel community did so successfully. it gets a some of the venture capital community. we have a $10 million pilot project going on right now. hopefully, that will be able to spur more innovation. why have started a long-range research and development planning program. that is under the cognizance of -- undersecretary of defense for html and his acting secretary, steve. they are looking at innovative ideas and trying to change the paradigm so they can become more nimble in this competitive and biomed. we have something unique in the world, a strategic abilities office. this office looks at weapons and platforms have an existence right now and says how do you use them differently to will change the way they operate and provide affects. i know of no other operation in the world that does this. i

assume that this is much broader than the department of defense. this has to be a hugely conference of exercise involving the federal reserve, the department of defense, major utilities, everyone engaged. i assume everyone agrees with that. thank you, mr. chairman. >> first of all, general alexander, i appreciate the time we had -- i learned a lot in the time we spent together in your position. it was very meaningful. i recall when i was first elected -- i came from the house to the senate and replaced david boren, chair of the intelligence committee -- he told me at that time, one of the problems we were never able to deal with was the fact that we have all of this technology, and all these things we're finding out, and yet, we seem to be competing with ourselves. we have the fbi, the cia, the nsa. i'm kind of seeing the same thing. we made some headway. in fact, during the bosnia thing, all of the enemies were in one room together, at least they were talking. you mentioned in your statement, private entities cannot afford alone, andthemselves that

now the department of defense broadly refers to this access area of denial. the problem is reasonably well-understood, the problem is launching a new strategy to counter, better ship or aircraft alone will not solve the problem because of path we've been on with the acquisition system and requirement system that we have, we'll build something even more expensive. it will be good but even more expensive and have fewer of them. so to operate in this area we need more fundamental shift in our military thinking. we need to be able to disperse our forces, disaggragate our capabilities into larger numbers of lower cost systems, operate and deceive the enemy through deception measures and decoys, and we need to be able to swarm and overwhelm enemy defenses with large numbers low-cost assets. early thinking along these lines is underway in many parts of the department. the army's new operating concept, talks about dispersed operations in anti-access areas. the marine corps is experimenting with distributing operations. naval postgraduate school is researching aerial

, and someone disagrees, that general alexander's comment is this is much broader than the department of defense and we tend of look ourselves at stovepipes of defense plans, et cetera, but this has to be an unusually comprehensive exercise involving the federal reserve, the department of defense, the major utilities, everyone engaged, and i assume everyone agrees. with that, thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. first of all, general alexander, i appreciate the time we had to spend -- i learned a lot in the time that we spent together in your position. and it was very meaningful. and i recall when i was first elected, i came from the house to the senate, i replaced david borne. david borne is the chairman of the intelligence committee. he told me at that time, he said, you know, one of the problems that we were never able to deal with was the fact that we have all of this technology and all these things that we're finding out and yet we seem to be competing with ourselves. you have the fbi, the cia, the nsa, the homeland -- we didn't have homeland security then. but i'm kind of s

of actual. we could talk about hypothetically what the defense department could do and others. we talked about -- >> i would rather actually move to another topic. hypotheticals are great. why can we know actual in so many realms of what we do in defense but we're not willing to talk actual about cyber? because we certainly hear about the actual attacks on us. i think that raises a question i'd like to explore more. interesting -- very interesting hearing all your written tomorrow and oral testimony, too. the title was provocative. the future of warfare. a lot of the discussion about technology issues. i think one of the interesting areas about the future of warfare is the question of unilateral with partners. we were attacked on 9/11 by al qaeda. and we immediately assembled a coalition that amounted to about 60 nations to try to respond to that. the first thought after the attack on pearl harbor was not, we gotta go out and assemble a coalition. although, there were other nations, obviously the allied nations involved in world war ii. is there something unique about the future

and lastly, the department of defense itself has been active in this area. peace and security will be talking but in a moment with michele flournoy. but there's still problems even undersecretary of state hillary clinton, the four years she served in that position. some within the administration actually characterized attention to gender as a pet rock that was going down and side to be left by the wayside. because there were more important things to do. so people genuflected to the idea that women were important. i can only imagine that secretary of state hillary clinton was a forceful personality in making sure that people agreed at least on the surface that jenna was imported. but many of them may not have taken it as seriously as she did, and dropped as soon as the going got tough. some in a boat and we even have wonderful comments by our own dean ryan crocker photo is a lack of will at the top, that these issues were too easily put aside when the going got tough. the second thing that i believe that has undermined the notion that women matter in foreign

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of defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy. oversight of military plans and operations and national security council deliberation. she led the development from 2012 strategic guidance for the department of defense. she is someone we want to hear from at this time. should you like to read more about her, i will refer you to that bios at the end of our programs which are much longer than we are able to recite here during the conference today. so let's see if we can do this. michelle, thank you so much for being here. i. i am grateful for you for coming. now i have just read in your biography, you have been in policy planning at an extremely high level in the department of defense and sheer center for new american society is in the business of providing well-thought-out recommendations to the u.s. national security establishment. in your view, what should be the place of issues of women empowerment and security in u.s. national security planning? >> first of all, thank you valerie and thank you ambassador for inviting me to join you today. i cannot think think of a more important and timely topic for us to be wrestling with. i think -- i thought your presentation was excellent in terms

>> i have not review the individual contracts contracts with the teams and department of defense say those are -- that those kinds of displays are not subject to the financial transaction between the department of defense and the teams. the financial transactions are specifically focused on more conventional advertising that is designed to enhance the military recruiting effort. >> and finally it is in the bill. they put it in the defense prohibition act that the practice must stop putting the figures in the contract and actually paying for this patriotic acts, not for signage, but for the patriotic act. with the president sign that? >> it sounds -- based upon the fact that the department of defense said that this is not actually what they do it sounds to me like the president-elect they would not have an objection to it, but for the details of how those contracts are structured to my certainly encourage you to check with the department of defense to see if they can provide greater clarity. >> back to the plan to close the detention center at guantÁnamo. you mentioned there are a num

this week it addresses, as i said, the department of defense. and i want to highlight what a recent inspector general of the department of defense report found over $40 million of overspending by the department of defense to build one gas station in afghanistan. that's right, over $40 million to build one gas station in afghanistan. the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction found that the department of defense task force for stability and business operations spent actually $43 million on a single natural gas fueling station in afghanistan. the station was originally projected to cost $3 million. and we'll talk about how did it ever get to $3 million let alone how in the world could this have gone -- gotten to a total of $43 million? according to the i.g. report, the d.o.d. spent this money -- and i quote -- "to fund the construction and to supervise the initial operation" -- the initial operation -- "of the station. specifically it spent approximately $12.3 million in direct costs" -- i guess that's building the station -- "and

it's less than one percent of the department of defense nearly 600 billion dollar budget.[john hannah defense of democracies -- ftp politics folder john hannah 11/23 politics folder]"this is a terribly under resourced war for our objectives that our commander in chief has set for us.military analyst john hannah, a former security advisor under george w. bush, questions the administration's strategy.starting he says with too few dollars being spent on a battle president barack obama has declared in our national vital interest [john hannah defense of democracies] "god forbid in the aftermath of paris, if the united states were to be hit, the costs then would be astronomical for us to go in on the ground by ourselves to try to take care of this problem."melanie greenberg, the head of the alliance for peacebuilding, says it's not cost effective to just throw more money at a military response. "you can put an endless amount into military spending. but unless you can change the dynamics on the ground socially and change the incentives for people to join isis, you are never going

senator reed: you have spoken exclusively about forces trained by the department of defense. you can't title x but there are a lot of titles in the u.s. code. there are other forces on the ground that our coalition trained, that have come under attack by the russians. that is clear. secretary carter: absolutely true. but they have been placed in areas which for many reasons have not been subject to aerial attacks. secretary carter: they are fighting isil. the russians are not. even though they said they were. but the go back. -- let me go back. it has shifted to train individual units to the i sil fight to providing some training to the leader and then some support. this is another aspect of approach which i would like to clarify. individualaders, but enablers pride people with technical skills that can go in to the deployed units and provide those skills. is that still being done? secretary carter: that is so part of the approach. the big differences rather than trying to form brand-new units we are identifying units already fighting isil, providing them equipment and as you

department of defense is hopeful that the relocation will make steady progress. >> the department of defense be the help of the government of japan that this project will be able to move forward. we thank the government of japan for its efforts in this regard. and we believe that ultimately that relocation of that facility is in the best interest of people of okinawa, as well. >> the first court hearing on the relocation is set for december 2. >>> the japanese prime minister has gone back on a plane not long after returning from turkey. we are joined from the business desk. so where is he headed to this time? >> he is off to the philippines where he is going to meet some of the same leaders he met a few days ago at the group of 20 talks. in manila shinzo abe will attend asian pacific economic summit. one idea abe plans to promote is free trade area throughout the asia pacific. the japanese prime minister will be seeing u.s. president barack obama and chinese president at the talks. abe will meet members of the nation partnership the day before the summit gets underway. they are expect

okay, what department of defense systems of support are working for the benefit of military connected children? gen. dempsey: i may have to phone a friend here. [laughter] deanie: the policy and freshman rosemary williams. i know who has it. [inaudible] yes, and family policy. that's the one. they are definitely connected to the kids. she runs the forum and she puts that information here in we in turn give her information or issues to be worked. gen. dempsey: now, that's the office and she's kind of a person who runs the office, but i'll tell you the support group is for military families are the chiefs of staff of the services. and their senior enlisted leaders. deanie: and their spouses. gen. dempsey: one of the reasons we travel is interact with counterparts around the world. but when we traveled domestically, my principal purpose is to make sure that we are giving our young air men, soldiers, marines, and coast guard members what they need and find out what is going right and, importantly, what is not going right. then we get back on the airplane and i am trying to fall asleep and

defense authorization bill. it also recognizes the fact one of the challenges is not only those programs that are controlled by the department of defense but also other agencies that are involved in national security, and relief for those agencies is also important to carrying out the mission of the department of defense and protecting the american people. with this new ndaa, i think we have been able to keep our pledge to the men and women in the uniform of the united states, and let me finally conclude where i began. thank chairman mccain, chairman thornberry, ranking member smith, but more particularly the staffs. we who have the privilege of serving on the armed services committee understand the extraordinary hours, the efforts, the insight, the total commitment of not only the committee staff members but the staffs of the individual members. their efforts are reflected in this bill. it will not bear their names but more importantly bear their work, and for that i thank them very, very much. let me urge all of my colleagues to support this bill, to join senator mccain and others so that for the 54th straight year we will

a part of some paid service as a part of these contracts from national guard and from the department of defensee air force, separate contracts, the deal with marketing in which these sorts of programs were listed within the contracts. now, senators mccain and flake said it was very difficult to get information out of the department of defense on this issue sensing perhaps they would be embarrassed by it is what they told us a short time ago. so the idea is, can recruitment veer into something that actually cheapens the general public sense of saluting the military service of veterans and those who are serving now. it's a realization they say will end the practice. >> kelly, thank you for that. we have to go right to the white house briefing. josh earnest is taking questions about the plane and the new information cited moments ago. >> we have a strong desire to get to the bottom of what exactly happened there. as it relates to the procedures for aircraft operating in and around the sinai peninsula, let me share some information about the faa. first of all, the faa has a notice to airmen that wa

again, i say all of this without the department of defense having rendered a final assessment about the. but the fact that we were even able to conduct this air strike i think is some indication that we are serious about applying pressure to isil leaders and to using that intelligence to do that. again, in the case of mr. emwazi, somebody who is an isil leader, strategist for that organization and somebody who was actively involved in their online recruitment and radicalization efforts, that made him a target worth going after. >> reporter: as you mentioned earlier, this individual had a role in the deaths of some western hostages. i'm wondering if the white house has reached out today or yesterday to the families of those hostages and if you could describe what kind of outreach was done for them.

in part there was a department of defense task force that actually did an awful lot of work across this across all services. within the army there are things that we don't have to wait for the department of defense guidance to come out. there are things that i thought we should do to enhance the force protection. one of those things that we are doing, i'll give you a specific example, is we've already ordered ballistic benches to go into our recruiting centers. for those who are underinformed it looks like a normal bench but it can withstand a 762 round. that's something concrete we've taken steps to do that i think could have mitigated -- i don't know that it would have, you know prevented but could have mitigate mitigated. the other thing is in our recruiting centers, and some of those you can see into those recruiting centers. so, we've -- we've gone out. we call them clings. but you can put something on the front of that recruiting center so the recruiters inside the recruiting center can see out. but individuals looking in in the daytime cannot see in. that is yet another thing. we

attorney's office won't discuss the case and neither will the cia or the department of defense. old me other strange things about the front. that its leaders were close to people in the department of defense. that they may have gotten help with their operations in southeast asia. but what, if anything, did this have to do with the story i've been investigating? i learn of a former front member who spent years in prison. he'd shot a man in orange county over statements he made to the l.a. times, calling for dialogue with the communist government in vietnam. the would-be assassin's name is tran vanh be tu. and he agrees to meet me at a hotel just off the expressway. so he came out of this pho shop? >> thompson: no regret, no remorse. for be tu, this was not attempted murder. it was an act of war. >> thompson: be tu had been a hard core front member. he says they'd even tried to recruit him to join k9. but he split from the group before the shooting. so you were recruited to join the k9 organization. is that right? >> thompson: and it was your understanding that k9 was a hit squad o

it's less than one percent of the department of defense nearly 600 billion dollar budget.[john hannah defense of democracies -- ftp politics folder john hannah 11/23 politics folder]"this is a terribly under resourced war for our objectives that our commander in chief has set for us.military analyst john hannah, a former security advisor under george w. bush, questions the administration's strategy.starting he says with too few dollars being spent on a battle president barack obama has declared in our national vital interest [john hannah defense of democracies] "god forbid in the aftermath of paris, if the united states were to be hit, the costs then would be astronomical for us to go in on the ground by ourselves to try to take care of this problem."melanie greenberg, the head of the alliance for peacebuilding, says it's not cost effective to just throw more money at a military response. "you can put an endless amount into military spending. but unless you can change the dynamics on the ground socially and change the incentives for people to join isis, you are never going

released a report yesterday at a news conference, they claim it details widespread evidence the department of defense paying professional sports teams and leagues such as the nfl, major league baseball to honor american soldiers at sporting events. this shows the department of defense paid nearly $7 million in taxpayer money to honor the military over the past four years. such tributes include national anthems, full field, american flags and ceremonial first pitches. lawmakers slammed sports leagues over getting paid for the events earlier this year and this year's defense authorization bill includes language banning the pay. now, let's give you a live look at citizens bank park. the phillies received $38,000 over a two-year period. it's not illegal. the phyllis said a statement -- lawmakers say the problem is the patriotism is being bought using taxpayer money. >> then to find out the taxpayers are paying for it. it kind of cheapens the whole lot and that's simply not right. >> nfl commissioner roger goodell says the laeg will investigate, if any inappropriate payments were found the money will be r

ed: the new england patriots returned not hundred thousand dollars to the department of defense after an audit this past week reveals nfl teams were being paid for on-field patriotism tributes only one other team took more. how squeamish does this make you as a pats fan? >> it is so unpatriotic. shameful. what are you paying for, people standing up? they are loaded paying for the tickets. ed: $13 billion a year industry and their billing the government for this thing. >> maryanne is right, on the face of it, it' s sickening. but i' ve been involved in advertising. the federal government and the department of defense spends money to attract and maintain members in the service. i don' t think that this will be money for flags or people singing national anthem. there are billboards, advertising. i think we have to figure out, were they, in fact, paying for patriotism, or was as part of the promotion? >> what part of this don' t you understand? >> right, because i barely understand anything. janet: last night, donald trump posted saturday night live. two decades earlier, hillary clinton'

the department of defense using tax dollars to foot the bill. nbc's jay gray has the story. >> while so many are quick to recognize the cost of their service we're now beginning to learn the price that comes with honoring our men and women in uniform? as much as $6.8 million that we saw the department of defense spend on sports marketing contracts since 2012. that's right, the soldier singing the national anthem and the service men and women unfurling the flag on the field and even some of the emotional homecoming reunions were the result of what senator john mccain other ands called paid patriotism. >> there are a lot of good things that professional sports do to honor the men and women who serve in the military, but those millions of dollars are not acceptable. >> a congressional investigation shows contracts included some kind of staged, patriotic moment. >>> the service members didn't know about the agreement and many of the leagues and teams say the events were free add-ones to existing high-dollar marketing contracts. >> it kind of cheapens

and not just the department of defense. tioned in earlier defense, the department of homeland security, the department of justice, the treasury department, the state department amongst many others play a critical role in our national security. they, too, need some budget certainty and freedom from the caps and sequestration. so all of that i think was very, very relative -- relative -- relevant to making our national security stronger and adequately protecting our troops. so i'm pleased to stand up to support the bill today. i look forward to it moving forward again. i thank everyone for their very, very hard work for making it happen. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. thornberry: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. thornberry: mr. speaker, as the house departs for the veterans day recess, i think it is particularly impo

of detainees? mr. earnest: i am not sure the plans the department defense has. -- the department of defense has.the president would not that scenario. the goal of closing the prison we are living up to our values when it comes to dealing with these individuals. i do not know what eventual plans the department of defense may have for the facilities there. have the gaps between the president and prime minister been overestimated? does a meeting like today bridge such a gap? mr. earnest: as the president said, there is no world leader with whom he has at the opportunity to meet more often than prime minister netanyahu. that is a testament to the bond between our two countries and to the effectiveness of the working relationship between the two men. it does not mean they have agreed on every issue and it does not mean they are the best of friends. that they are able to work effectively together to advance the interest of the citizens of their countries and to advanced the shared interest of our lands. >> was their announcement of any aid package -- was there an announcement of any aid package? mr. e

according to the department of defense, the u.s. has already damaged or destroyed more than 16,000 isis targets, including buildings and oil rigs since august of last year at a total cost of $5 billion. putting boots on the ground would cost lives, but would not doing so cost the u.s. its military reputation? >> i think in a way, it's allowing other countries to step up and become fuller partners in this battle. >> reporter: duffy says it will ultimately take a coalition approach, because the size of isis, with estimates ranging from 60,000 to 250,000 total members, could thwart attacks by ground forces. >> it's not likely to be thoroughly successful. you try those methods that are least costly to yourself first. >> reporter: dr. duffy points out a prime comparison for the current situation is the iraq war, which involved swift boots on the ground action by the u.s. government. that war led to the overthrow of saddam hussein, but it also created a political climate that gave rise to isis. so, the reality -- war is a long game, and th

az :10 - :20"as much as $6.8 million that we saw the department of defense spend on sports marketing contracts since 2012." that's right.. that soldier singing the national anthem.. the servicemen and women unfurling a giant flag on the field.. even some of those emotional homecoming reunions.. were the result of what sen. john mccain and others call "paid patriotism.." az :34 - :46"there's a lot of good things that professional sports do to honor the men and women who serve in the military but these millions of dollars are not acceptable." a congressional investigation shows as many as 72 contracts with at least 50 pro sports teams.. included some kind of staged patriotic moment.. the service members involved apparently didn't know about the agreements.. and many of the leagues and teams say the events were free add-ons to existing high-dollar marketing contracts.. az 1:06 - 1:12"to find out the taxpayer is paying for it, it kinda cheapens the whole lot and that's simply not right." not right.. and soon it could be, illegal.. az 1:15 - 1:28"leagues have pledged not to continue and pe

congress is reviewing about 27 contracts between major league sports and the department of defense worth about $6 million in taxpayers' money. tonight, the nfl says it will refund any money it finds was used for on-the-field military phil lipof, wcvb newscenter 5. >> next on newscenter 5 -- heather: 5 investigates. corners cut on your repairs and to save your insurance company money. >> what makes a spot in this boston garage more expensive than a house? harvey: near record warmth today. the chances of breaking records later this week. heather: top dogs. the family pet tipping the scales. >> you're watching wcvb newscenter 5 at 11:00. ed: accusations that car insurance companies are putting the bottom line ahead of your safety when it comes to auto body repairs. heather: more than 100 repair shops around the country have already filed lawsuits. and as kathy curran shows us tonight shops in massachusetts kathy: it looks nice from the outside. but safety reasons it's not. katherine spears' 2010 toyota corolla looked just fine after a repair job at one of her insurance company's preferred o

in fact, the leading thinkers of our department of defense and planners have been underscoring just what a huge threat unchecked climate change is, in terms of sea level rise, in terms of extended periods of drought. some of the republican candidates laughed at me when i said that climate change was the big contributing factors to the rise of isil. how could that be? what a joke. but then, the planners and the defense department said that that was true. prior to the civil war, there was a massive drought that came over the fertile crescent, made worse by climate change it drove , farmers into cities. the regime couldn't deal with the needs of its people, uprisings broke out and suppression followed and civil war followed. the nationstate nearly collapses and then to that vacuum rises , isis. there are many cascading effects to climate change. including exacerbating tensions and the arctic. the mass migrations, potentially continental migrations, that can come about as a result of climate change. they always ask what the first thing you will do in the first 48 hours, well, the first thing

chairman for providing the committee the opportunity to take a deliberate and holistic review of the defense departmentrganization structure permissions and essentially look forward very creatively and abruptly. as the chairman pointed out we were privileged to have the secretary of defense bob gates and host of other experts, former officials and historians and active commissions that talks about the defense department and strategic context in going forward and it's worthwhile as the chairman has done to quote doctor. he said americans including all too often our leaders regarding the national crisis and conflict as aberrations when in fact it's sad to say they are the norm. he also repeated in the conclusion by more than four decades of public service is predicting the future remains perfectly never gotten it right. because of this he said we must place a premium on requiring equipment and providing the forces to most possible capabilities across the border as possible spectrum of conflict in the processes in the way the strategic guidance is crafted in including the review. among other things the wi

president, yesterday the republican leader once again filed a motion to invoke cloture on the department of defense appropriations bill. it was another example of the republican leader wasting the senate's time on a repeated cloture vote that he knows will fail. republicans tried this piecemeal approach already. it didn't work. we came within hours of defaulting and not extending the full faith and credit of the united states. we came within days of shutting down the government. even though two-thirds of the republicans in the house and the senate voted to close the government, default on their debt we were able to craft a budget agreement that focuses on the middle class and pentagon. now it's time to move on and pass an object appropriations bill that addresses the defense and needs of the middle class and keeping with the budget that passed last week. there is no reason we can't get an omnibus bill to fund all the government by december 11, which is the deadline. if the republicans balk, the government will close. again remember, two-thirds of the republicans in congress already voted "no." they

investigation shows as many of 72 contracts between the the department of defense. service members didn't know about the agreements. legislation to make the deals illegal. report include boston sports team. the bruins received $280,000, celtics, 195,000, red sox 100,000. >> each and every one of the teams could have afforded to pick up the tab. >> that is the issue. >>> somerville police officer the son of a polish immigrant who grew up in a brooklyn tenement. he went to public schools, then college, where the work of his life began -- fighting injustice and inequality, speaking truth to power. he moved to vermont, won election and praise as one of america's best mayors. in congress, he stood up for working families and for principle, opposing the iraq war, supporting veterans. now he's taking on wall street and a corrupt political system funded by over a million contributions, tackling climate change to create clean-energy jobs, fighting for living wages, equal pay, and tuition-free public colleges. people are sick and tired of establishment politics, and they want

that's thanks to the department of defense lifting restrictions on women in combat in 20-13... col. greg hapgood hopes the two history-makers will inspire other women to do the same... 17:15:51--17:16:01 that could have really a cascading effect 17:15:53 'that other people will build on that success, want to do similar things and say you know, theres virtually no job that i cant do right now because these women have set the standard.' currently, women make up 15-percent of the iowa army national guard and 18-percent of the iowa air national guard. last night the republican presidential candidates met for their fourth debate of the campaign. the moderators kept the debate focused on issues ... not on inspiring infighting amongst the candidates. but that didn't stop the candidates from lobbing some attacks. andrew spencer has this look back. fox business network agreed to give the candidates equal time, but that didn't stop some of them from fighting over it. "governor jeb..." "let me say a couple of things here. first of all..." "you should let jeb speak." "...we have grown..." "no,

appropriations bill which funds the appropriations for the department of defense for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2016, and for other purposes, et cetera. in other words, the defense appropriations bill which provides for the training, equipment, pay, medical care, all of those vital necessities for the men and women who are serving in the military, a sufficient number of my colleagues, i believe all but one on the other side of the aisle decided to vote against moving to that legislation. i want the record to be clear. the majority, all but one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, as i understand it, voted against moving to the legislation which voice for funding for the defense of this nation and the men and women who serve it. items that are vitally important to the men and women who are serving, items like military personnel, committee recommends $3 billion for pay allowances and other personnel costs for active reserve and guard troops, activated for duty in afghanistan and other contingencies. counterterrorism partnership funds. money provision that rec

distinguished leaders of the department of defense and military services, former v.a. ers, vice admiral norm ryan. military officers association of america, our cohost are this year's celebration and all the representatives of our veterans service organizations. fellow veterans, members of our armed forces, ladies and gentlemen. know, president is scheduled to present the medal of honor to an american soldier tomorrow. captain retired florence gruenberg. tomorrow will remark the 10th time in living service member has received our nation's highest valor award for actions in afghanistan or iraq. seven more were posthumously awarded the metal. at tomorrow's ceremony, president obama will address the specifics of captain grover heroism. but let me say that in the worst of circumstances and without hesitation, captain gerbert acted in a manner that saved the lives of many of his comrades. tragically he could not save them all. was informed last month that he would receive the medal of honor, he said, "this metal belongs to them. it's my mission to tell everyone thank you for

fault lines contacted the us department of defense and the special operations joint task force in afghanistan. they both referred us to natos mission in afghanistan. >> nagieb - resolute support has not received any formal allegation from the governement >> i didn't know exactly what they meant by "no formal allegations." we followed up and asked them if they'd received any reports of civilian casualties from the august 3rd operation. that was over a month ago. we're still waiting for their answer. i couldn't get any information from the us about their involvement in the operation, but i was able to track down an afghan lieutenant, abdul shafiq, who was a commander on the ground on august third. over the phone, i asked him about the us's role in the operation. >> but when i asked him about the other fourteen civilians who had died that day, he told me he didn't know anything about them. >> with some afghan officials denying civilian casualties and others breaking their promise to uncover what happened in charkh, and with the us military stonewalling us, it felt like neither the afghans or the

i realize your not speaking for the department of put defense. just want to ask you in open hearings we have had witnesses, generals, military experts, time after time saying that the unilateral approach is just bombing itself accompanied by the ability of troops at the ground to all that area. otherwise it was basically a worthless military strategy and approach. >> simply bombing without the ability. it has to be incorporated with the land force. >> yes, mr. keating. those topics, as you suggest, are frequently discussed within the administration. let me just say, the campaign has had considerable impact on the leadership. i can give you the exact figures, but a number of prominent leaders of been taken off of the battlefield. and removed from office. >> can i just jump into this aspect? they have been a lot of discussion about rules of engagement, and it is a difficult issue, russia's approaching this in a manner without discrimination. they seem contented bombing and killing innocent civilians and not even trying to make efforts to avoid doin