that started from a higher level of understanding about how china would fight with an understandinwithin understandind particularly taiwan and the south china sea. we felt like we needed to take a step back and take a stab at how we thought it would fight before we talk about comparison of like those that were made in that report. so, this was essentially a precursor to a study like that. it's really intended to serve as the best judgment of the russia analysts. shouldn't be too many surprises so the structure of today's talk a little bit differently from how we wrote the paper. in the paper we started the strategic level and work our way down and today we are going to jump off a down to the tactical level and some of the army staff and worked our way back up. i will hand it back over to handle the operational and strategic additional observational strategic considerations and finally i will make a note of the caveats at the bottom. she's going to leave with that t and then move into her remarks. the military started a series of reforms that continue to this day to improve the military capabilities. o