dr. preble, would you comment? mr. preble:: i'm worried about nonstate actors, it brings us into an area of defensive dominance which raises issues of will we risk truly exquisite platforms and risk large numbers of lives for projecting pow entire other people's areas. this new era of defensive dominance. mr. donnelly: i think your principal task is to understand what our geopolitical purposes is. technologies, as mr. preble said, mean different things to different people we feel need to figure out what elements are central to us and our job still will be as it was in 1942 to figure out how to have an effect on the far side. we do not want to, you know, experience another sort of pearl harbor like event and our purposes are quite different than they were in 1941. we are trying to preserve an international system, not build one from scratch. >> mr. brimley. mr. brimley: i associate myself with dr. krepinevich's comments. i understand this committee is holding a theerning goldwater-nichols act, i think the 1986 or 1988 am

dr. preble spin i've spoken all of it of this. i introduce to the other reserves as strategic and that was the intent as a mood where from the conscripted force, volunteer force that is to augment that smaller package a well-trained force. i do see value in engaging the public and communities in the way when we wage war abroad and our people from the community that are drawn away from their jobs and families in the way they were not entity because they are not full-time active duty. than it seems at a minimum we should of had a debate within we are having a debate over where exactly are we fighting and why. so if it were, if we were to move to operational reserve and also engendered a debate over the wars we're fighting and why, then i would support it. >> very briefly, my time is expiring, mr. donnelly. >> i would tend to agree with actually both. there used to be a national guard artillery brigade that a long-term association with every army division. we got rid of those some time ago. there are roles the guard can play for earl