mr. preble: it's about as distant as you possibly can get. senator mccain: still a great name. mr. preble: strategy is about choosing and setting priorities and we have not done a very good job of that. when you articulate those priorities, you send signals some of which are not necessarily welcome, some of which are necessary. and i do think it is important to send a quite different message to our allies that we will have forever their back forever and forever and not do anything to assist us. i don't think that's wise or over the long-term going to be effective. i don't believe that the united states has the ability to foresee many, many other countries that what their security priorities are. senator mccain: mr. wood. mr. wood: i believe the president needs to clearly define u.s. national security interests and then resource those commensurate with those interests. how could you do otherwise? you aren't willing to devote the resources necessary to serve, you have to recast your interests and the role you want to play. we have seen the impact of the baseline budget. army dropping

mr. preble: yes. senator king: a question for the record for all of you, how do we enforce the 2% standard? you all have mentioned it. we are carrying too much of the burden. what i'd like some suggestions as to how that is carried out rather than in ways other than just imprecations to our allies. finally, i'm not even going -- i'm going to screw up the pronunciation, krepinevich is that close? dr. krepinevich, i think you made a really important point, time is an issue. senator inhofe has a chart that shows the time to put an aircraft in the field is 23 years. if that has been the case with radar and the manhattan project we'd be speaking another language today. we have to be able to field new technologies faster. cost is obviously a question but to talk about a new bomber that probably won't be built for 10 or 12 years may be not even then, we have to deal with this issue of time. mr. krepinevich: time is a resource as manpower is, or technology is, or defense dollars. senator king: are we overthin

mr. preble:: yes. senator king: a question for the record for all of you, how do we enforce the 2% standard? you all have mentioned it. we're carrying fooch of the burden. what i'd like some suggestions as to how that is carried out rather than in ways other than just imprecations to our allies. finally, i'm not even going -- i'm going to screw up the pronunciation, krepinevich is that close? dr. krepinevich, i think you made a really important point, time is an issue. senator inhofe has a chart that shows the time to put an aircraft in the field is 23 years. if that has been the case with radar and the manhattan project we'd be speaking another language today. we have to be able to field new technologies faster. cost is obviously a question but to talk about a new bomber that probably won't be built for 10 or 12 years may be not even then, we have to deal with this issue of time. mr. krepinevich: time is a resource as manpower is, or technology is, or defense dollars. senator king: are we overthinking