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john amos will be at the council on foreign relations discussing the marine corps and national securityspan2 at 830 eastern. also come to that joint deficit reduction committee hears from douglas elmendorf, the congressional budget office director. the deadline for cutting the deficit is four weeks away. also on c-span3, janet napolitano and testifies before the house judiciary committee on u.s. immigration policy and enforcement. >> from the textbooks festival last weekend -- >> the strategy is going after the head of the snake and the rest of the snake dies. has been the idea. unfortunately the reality has been very different. >> almost all the other founding fathers are thinking of their colonies on the eastern seaboard, jefferson is already dreaming of his empire of liberty they will go all the way to the mississippi maybe, maybe of the missouri, and even to those great harbors on the pacific, san diego, monterey, and san francisco. >> i had covered the military and the cia after that. in the years before and after 9/11. you see things grow around me that i was not sure what they we

the pentagon there are several chiefs and just want commandants, and he is with us today, general john amos. i would like to start really at the top strategic level. 10 years since the attacks of 9/11, it forced the american military to adapt and change it as much as the adversaries have and it really is what i would like to call a new darwinism -- adversaries learn a new trick and we have to adapt and back and forth. b-52's as a strategic asset flying close air support, who would have thought. the troops going out of their armored vehicles going out when infantry patrols. but want a dentation the corps has had to make is you have given up your historic expeditionary role, back-to-back deployments to afghanistan, operating out of fob's. in a post-iraq, post-afghanistan world, how the did the marine corps going back to the historic mission and what other changes are you anticipating? >> first of all, we have been on the ground for 10 years now. and one of our more senior leaders used the term, we have become a second land army. that was coined from a marine, which i lived to rue the day the