i was socom in the early 1990's.he question i had come discussion about partnerships and relationships. as you know the air national guard is working on building partnerships, and they have 70 state partnership programs overseas. my question is, is there something going on that somehow would join the two programs, sof, as well as what the national guard is trying to do, realizing the guard has been a small slice of the pie with respect to the sof world. ineverything we do is support of the theater campaign plans from each of the geographic commanders. inside each region, this is a holistic. sof is a part. there is all caps of aspects inside defense. from a country team or spectrum, none of these activities is done without the approval of the chief of mission, who has been looking at it from a country team perspective, and is looking from an interagency aspect. nflicted at the tactical level. it is not synchronized at a higher level. it is to some degree, but young people on the ground tend to work through all the dyn

we are putting them right in the center of the socom headquarters command. and so that is groundbreaking, makes a lot of people nervous. we're doing it within the rules and regulations, but it is a tremendous task to accomplish. >> see, one more question if we have one. right back there. >> my name is richard. i'm a student. now, as you've been talking about this program with admiral mcraven's initiative, with the same kind of program such as the atkins local police initiative, will we see more of the security, service training across the globe? >> yes. [laughter] >> actually, yes. what you're seeing is a security force assistance building partner forces out there. depending on what country team, there is concern about doing the military side before you do the diplomacy side. and there's always a catch there. i'm a believer that you won't have good democracy without good security. and there is a balance there. because sometimes it can get a little bit interesting out there, that the world is not all black and white. but yes, the intent is to build our partne

opponents now a new interim government is slowly being formed by people there are deeply uneasy about what socom as r.t. is policy or reports. egypt's back in the headlines but for all the wrong reasons a week of street battles mass crowds a divided country on the brink of civil war this is the street where the worst violence in cairo happened even thirty five people killed move in a house an injured the mood is extremely tense friends family and supporters shouting crying a lot of emotion and the country's bracing itself for more u.s. issued military combat boots stand guard the newly installed all means not taking any chances if no clear government action to change its way to the status quo in egypt is on the brink of disaster in terms of an upper egypt to an arts internet a real policy and real change is on the one side the millions who rallied for the ouster of the muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi they got what they wanted went on wednesday the army took over across the bridge those who want him reinstated both sides are talking war i want to say to the american statesman to the wa

to africa and they were talking about the military liaisons' for socom to go in and begin to work with the state department. in 70 different countries and they wanted to be there. refer to it as preparation of the environment. the point was to make sure that things do not happen. i went to one country where it was working really well, and then another country -- i will not name them -- but the ambassador could not stand them, they had no clue what their mission was, there were calls and all kinds of problems. so i said, we have to fix this, what can we do about this? he is a very deadpan guy and said, if you have seen one mle, you have seen mle. so it comes down to individual personalities. are they working together? you have to find the right person who is not just a subset -- obsessively focused on getting credit for everything. you can change the structure, but it comes down to the individuals involved, who know how to engage process agency to build a culture. have are about to special operations command liaison here at the institute of peace, and it is in part because we work globa

it is one of the reasons that socom has people around the globe trying to help his development.you know, it is better that we help these folks help themselves and we have to step in at some point and help them undue the mess that has been created in order to further this. it is absolutely true that we benefit economically, as adam just sad, from stability globally. but then there are other threats. the proliferation of deadly weapons and deadly viruses and things like that, it is really quite remarkable in the modern age. so we have the economic benefits and then we can also realize that we have problems with these threats the they are circling right now over here. >> below, i am from the professional securities reform and i would like to follow up on the last question. we should have a motto that it's good to have good leaders and work untempered organizations and you don't have to choose between them. in that regard it has been sort of frustrating watching that this reform has had a lot of energy to reform it, it is good to hear in congress behind the obama administration that