and this is what makes us army strong. thank you very much and i look forward to your questions, mr. chair. >> thank you, very much. general, mr. secretary. last year, we passed the deficit reduction act that was the -- took a two pronged approach to attack the hunl deficit problem that we have built over decades over making promises that were difficult to keep and spending money that we had to power to spend. the first prong was the almost trillion dollars that came out of, was supposed to come out of discreti discretionary spending and there was appear call after the last election that everything should be on the table. and i understand that defense was a big target and i repeatedly said, if we cannot find some savings within a budget of $600 billion plus, shame on us. and i think you have done a great job on that beginning with the hundred billion dollars of efficiencies and then the $78 billion and then the -- what we find now is $480 billion, the second part of that, we had through the legislation assigned the super c

this committee affords our all volunteer army to be the most decisive land force in the world. we could not do it without the support you give us. it is an honor to work for this great nation. the strength of our nation is our army. the strength of our army is our soldiers. and the strength of our soldiers is our families. and this is what makes us army strong. thank you very much. and i look forward to your questions, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. general, mr. secretary. last year, we passed the deficit reduction act that was the -- that took a two-pronged approach to attack the huge deficit problem that we've built

they saw an opportunity here with the disgruntled army to use the army as a lever, as a threat, against the states and the congress. to force the states to give greater power to the congress, to demand from the congress their pay. and the only way they would get paid by the congress was if the states sent money and increased the power of the central government. and they began, then, to play this very dangerous game of using the army. what these men feared most was peace. peace. because they knew that if peace came, the army would dissolve. they had not heard anything from our commissioners in paris fr, m mr. adams, mr. jay, mr. franklin and later mr. laurens. they didn't communicate with philadelphia. but the rumors -- wrote to his friend, matthew ridley, quote, not much for the interest of america that peace should be made at present. think about that. not much in our interests that peace should be made. it is in our interest that the war be prolonged. meanwhile, up at the camp in newburgh, the officers muttering and murmuring, there arrived a new general. his name was hoe ratio gates.

who's in the military for years who told me about how they fly around on anti drug missions using the us army and now that's all admitted here domestically so this is just the robots knocking down the door and it's completely unconstitutional it's dangerous and we're going to rue the day that. it happens all over the world under the n.b.a. they are saying we will just arrest and kill citizens in the u.s. with no trial and have disappear drones will kill people in any country in the world so it's a global decoration of war against the entire planet and again it's not america doing it it's the big mega banks that openly are conquering europe through fraud and ponzi schemes that are ready to us that have conquered the united states and own the military industrial complex no one is standing in their way no one they're trying to start wars in syria they've already given al qaida control of libya they're getting ready for war with iran they've got drones all over the planet seventy thousand of them i mean this is literally like attack of the clones or something out of a star wars movie wow i mean t

please help the members of this committee understand how under the context of the budget before us, the army is prepared to avoid the mistakes that led to task force smith. finally, and i really mean this, i cannot think of a better team than secretary mchugh and general to lead our army during these hchallenging times. again, thank you both for yourselfless service and look forward to your testimony. >> thank you, i too want to join you in your thanks and praise, i appreciate your hard work on behalf of our country and we particularly appreciate all the hard work that our soldiers have done over the course of the last two years. fighting two major sground wars and fighting them well. they performed at the expectations we all had for them, but still a very, very high level. we appreciate the sacrifices that all the soldiers made in the last ten years and their family. i believe the chairman laid out correctly the challenge that we faced. we draw down in iraq and afghanistan and that means major changes for all the services certainlily but for the army in particular as the largest force that

us. the army pilot accused of a classified leak returns to court. bradley manning faces a general court-marical on 22 counts -- martial, on 22 counts of helping the enemy. he gave wikileaks multiple reports. and a 2003 law makes it a crime to lie about a military decoration. victor alvarez said he was a retired marine who had been awarded the medal of honor. he never served in the military. they say the stolen valor act violates free speech. >> the largest george washington birthday parade begins here. about 3500 people will participate. it will be an all-star line-up with b.b. king and mick jagger supporting black history month. you can see the concert live or watch it on pbs stations. >> next, a new trend in plastic surgery. we will explain coming up. >> the snow is quickly coming to an end. we have warmer temperatures on buying this juicer online was unbelievable. what a bargain! [ female announcer ] sometimes a good deal turns out to be not such a good deal. but new bounty gives you value you can see. in this lab demo one sheet of new bounty lea

army to use in the field just six years later. >> let's go to asheville, north carolina. one more call here for john mountcastle. good afternoon to jay. >> caller: yes, sir, thanks for taking my call. my question is regarding secretary stanton. was he not extremely exasperated from time to time with mcclellan and did he not say that if he had a million men, he would sit in the mud and whine until he could get 2 million? and i'll take my answer off the air. thank you. >> thank you, jay. >> yes, jay, that's a great point. edwin stanton had been very much in favor of the promotion of george mcclellan to commanding general of the army as opposed to the defeated irwin mcdowell and the aged winfield scott. but as soon as they began to work closely together, friction developed here. stanton was a republican. mcclellan was a -- what was then called a war democrat, someone who was in favor of certainly restoring the union, but not much else. and so they had different political views, different personalities, and stanton did complain, mcclellan always wanted more men and he wanted

and the tanks and things like that but these wouldn't be used these have been used against the rebels so far because the army doesn't want to use really heavy artillery tanks and so on in a place like homes because street to street fighting they would lose too many for the for the not using those and russia say is not providing the rocket propelled grenade which osu devastating. the a k forty seven as that device and so on presume that the syrian army has enough of that because of the been many conflicts between russia and syria over the years and the russian trade in the city is very well and know one another very well. the e.u. has adopted a resolution calling on moscow to stop selling its arms to syria how likely do you think russia is to do this. well russia would say we have a legal contract if there's a conflict between city and russia there's no reason why we should not continue to supply the. because if you look at britain britain is the buying. offensive omma to the free said syrian army or the rebels if you like to call them that almost certainly kept in saudi arabia over providing. and one presume

army reserve on this concept. >> would the readiness reporting program that you have more events that can show us this side of the table where we are at any one point in time with respect to notice >> it's going to have to and have to do it for the total army. >> right. thank you, mr. chairman. yield back. >> thank you. mr. hunter. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you mr. secretary for your service and general odierno for your service and your family's sacrifice as well as you. the jail tv, i want to run through a few things. the new requirements don't reacquire blast or underbody protection for the same stringent requirements that they were originally stated. first question is why relax these requirements. why do we relax the requirements, why do we relax the weight limit. if you're over 13,000 pounds, it makes you less mobile whether it's air mobile or if you are putting these because the marine corps will use them too, they will be on ships, heavier on the ships as well. from what i could see from all the different people, all the different vendors applying for this, their vehicles come in at

army. we have to have certain capabilities but we have to have ready capabilities in the reserve component for us to be successful as an army. especially as we continue to downsize. so we want to do is take advantage of the experience that we've gained in our active reserve component as they've been a part of our deployments in iraq and afghanistan. so what we're going to do is set up a progressive readiness model that will enable us to attempt to sustain key components of the reserve component and continue to sustain an operational reserve. it will obviously be as big as it is now because of the requirements in iraq and afghanistan. but what we'll do is rotate units through and provide them more dollars in order to sustain a readiness level that will enable them to continue to contribute on rotational basis operationally. i think in the long-term that will help us to sustain a higher readiness rate within the reserve component. so we're very focused on that. >> if i could add, mr. kissle, we worked very hard over recent years to try to upgrade the level of equipment within the reserve component

army to the v.a. it certainly is feasible. us a know, congress transferred more than 80 national cemeteries managed by the army to the v.a. in the 1970s. however, several factors could affect the advisability of this. such a change can have potential costs and benefits challenges. it can lead to certain transition challenges, and can affect the characteristics that make arlington unique among our national cemetery. thus, it may be premature to change jurisdiction right now, since the army has significantly improved its management of arlington. here are some of the specific challenges that could arise in a jurisdictional change. first, simply identifying the goals of the transfer. second, the army and the v.a. have their own staff, processes and systems to determine burial eligibility and scheduling and managing burials. as an example, arlington has more restricted eligibility for in-ground burials than the v.a. third, arlington's appropriations structure is different than the v.a.'s and should you make a jurisdiction change congr

length, or as he the eisenhower that would appoint judges that would uphold the 14th amendment and used the army to break segregated schooling in little rock. in many ways the frustrations we have in pinning down eisenhower's ideas on civil rights are the same frustrations many of us have with our nation's history as a whole. we have a sense that our country should have given black people the same access to the rights of citizenship and opportunity that it gave to white people, that our president should have seen this and led us toward that goal and not been mired in prejudice or political calculation. president eisenhower was a man who held the same casual disregard of african-americans that many in his generation hold. however, his devotion to the constitution and to the procedural guarantees of the legal system enabled him to set aside his preconceived notions and take this country to a new place. or perhaps more accurately, opened enough protected space for the grassroots, civil rights activism of african-americans to survive. today, we are fortunate to have panelists who can expand and elab

this committee affords our all volunteer army to be the most decisive land force in the world. we could not do it without the support you give us. it is an honor to work for this great nation. the strength of our nation is our army. the strength of our army is our soldiers. and the strength of

at the beginning of world war i, the plan was to use only regular army divisions to oppose the powerful german army. meanwhile outside these divisions america had many trained and able men, a proposal for a new division of national guard units from as many states as possible was vigorously advocated by major douglas macarthur. it was spread over the whole country like a rainbow, the idea of a rainbow division, the 42nd was his, and his duty to see that if well equipped for the ball it that waited for it in france. the rainbow division moved up to the front. it's full readiness through the efforts of colonel macarthur was to prove fortunate indeed. it was during this period too that an impressive battlefield technician began to foreshadow a great military future. soon known for brilliant decisions on the battlefield, colonel macarthur was also to gain a reputation as a man who faced danger completely unafraid. he was the youngest american division commander in the war. twice wounded, twice gassed, he won more awards for valor than has ever been awarded to an american soldier. acclaimed a

army. but as bob crick reminded us, it was not really a good dayall day for stonewall jackson who had a part to play and decided not to. the union general, mcclellan, after glendale, sent this message to the war department. notice the tone. i shall do my best to save the army. but we know that well before the battles of glendale and malverne hill, george mcclellan's conception of how victory could be won was badly shaken. this ld historian once again provides his insights into the character of this general who was actually just too closely wedded to his preconceived notions of how war should be fought. in a chapter with a marvelous title "billy yanks chickahogany blues" the historian writes, the failure of mcclellan's peninsula campaign was not alone a military failure. it represented also the downfall of the limited war for limited ends that mcclellan favored. from now on the north would fight not to preserve the old union but to destroy it and build a new one on its ashes. a concept so dear to men like mcclellan when eventually reconciliation some sort of gentleman's agreement was being wa

own homes become trees winter death toll has now reached seventy nine with authorities using helicopters and army trucks to deliver food and medicine since the end of january hundreds have died across eastern europe and tens of thousands of housebound record snow levels in albania infected. with the business now with maria. oh and welcome to business and here i see the latest short term brought russian gas supply to europe spurred discussions on how to secure consumers from possible cuts in the future that of gas forms export branch alexander madrid says one of the ways is to increase storage capacities in the region. food supply. was its way through the program. experienced. between two hundred three hundred million euros for a few years to secure. our list like a look at the markets now with exchange rates the euro is to gaining a little bit against the dollar after seeing some losses on the choose that and the boys higher against both the european and the u.s. currencies following gains on the russian market. crude prices there wrong as saying after european leaders pushed greece for stronger

and i'm concerned about the army in-strength reductions and how they could affect this mission. could you just tell us and discuss maybe a little bit the role of the army foresees for itself in providing missile defense in the asia-pacific regi region? >> first we do play a significant role in the asia-pacific air defense command. we have our major command is in hawaii, who manages air and missile defense for the region. we have patriot battalions forward deployed in the asia-pacific region. and we have tactical operations, strategic radars that are being deployed into the region to continue to supplement the current air and missile defense capabilities that we have. we are very focused on foreign missile defense capability in our key theaters, both asia-pacific and other areas to include the middle east. and we will continue to do and fund that. and we have the capability to do that. we have the forestructure to do that. so i feel confident that we'll continue to be involved with that. i would also say there is many other roles that the army can play in anti-access capabilities as we look at ground o

across romania and albania and moldova are trapped in their villages and authorities are using helicopters and army trucks to deliver supplies and are digging people out. still ahead, will they remain side-by-side? european union talks on a new bailout for the country of greece as brussels six more reassurance for its money. let's take a look at stories making headlines around the world. we begin with the financial times, which is still focusing on the greek debt crisis. the front-page article says euro zone officials have called off a meeting of finance ministers to approve a vital bailout for aspin's. itomes amid a growing by about the merits of allowing a national default. the international herald tribune of business as a warning for greece, summing up portugal opposing position. economic growth slowing. the china daily said relations between china and the u.s. are maturing as the vice-president of china speaks candidly with american leaders about their differences. the independents front pages dedicated to a new report that suggested a quarter of the world's children are too malnourished to gro

their homes the country's winter death toll has now reached seventy nine with authorities using helicopters and army trucks to deliver food and medicine from c. end of january hundreds have died across eastern europe and tens of thousands have been housebound by record snow levels with moldova and albania also badly affected . business is next year and are at sea with kareena stay with us. so welcome to business here in r t we go straight to our top story this hour all have hit a six months high following an elvis month in the iranian media that the country was cutting exports to six european countries iran's state run press t.v. says it's a response to the e.u. sanctions over the country's nuclear program the move applies to spain italy france greece portugal and netherlands earlier the european union approved an embargo against iranian oil imports starting from the first of july however it intended existing contracts be complete it. meanwhile crude prices already has worries over supply dominated concern about weak economic growth light sweet is currently trading near one hundred two dollars a bar

army is using sophisticated field exercises to change how and what it buys. >>> welcome to "this week in defense news," i'm vago muradian. india picked a new fighter for its air force, the rafael built by france's d sioux but can france seal the $11 billion deal? we'll talk to a leading aviation expert. first the army's big overhaul to push the acquisition process. it began eight months bago with the first integration test at white sands missile range in new mexico and fort bliss, texas. the goal is to test it in a setting before the army commits to buying anything. they also aim to field equipment gradually so instead of equipping the entire army all at once, they want to buy small equipment, upgrade as they go. the effort begans with tactical equipment like radios and intelligence gear but expanding. the next n. i.e. in april will send ground crews through paces as well. this is the land battle command which makes procurement recommendations gained during n. i.e.s. welcome to the show. >> thanks for having me. >> wh various network components together in one place. what we weren't d

their homes the country's winter death toll has now reached seventy nine with authorities using helicopters an army trucks to deliver food and medicine since the end of january hundreds have died across eastern europe and tens of thousands have been housebound by record snow levels with moldova and albania badly affected. next screen is here with the latest business stay with us. hello and welcome to our business update this all thanks for joining me as we've been reporting iran is denying reports it's cut supply to six european countries iran state run press t.v. said the country was halting supplies to spain italy from the squeeze portugal out of the netherlands this caused all process to jump to a six month high. prices were already up as worries over supply dominated concern about weak economic growth what sweet is currently trading at over one hundred one dollars about brenda's hovering between one hundred eighteen one hundred nineteen dollars. the euro is gaining a bit against the dollar after seeing some losses on tuesday the ruble is high against both european and u.s. currencies following

is none of our business while some of bin laden's successor said he supports the war against us and sorry army and al qaeda was reportedly behind the four suicide bombings which killed scores of syrian officials and soldiers seen damascus and aleppo aleppo doesn't it seem strange that the us is on the same side with the whole kiting syria well it did it it does indeed the atlas and the the outside government has been has been ruthless and brutal and suppressing the uprising and the insurgency against it not as brutal as his father was half as a last sod who slaughtered twenty thousand people in hama in one nine hundred eighty two and they rose up and it would probably be a good thing if he departed and they had a more democratic government but your point is well taken the united states should ask itself not only what is the character of this regime but the first question should be do we have a vital interest in who rule syria my answer to that is no secondly if the incumbent government is overthrown who comes to power and syria you have the muslim brotherhood is trying to overthrow assad you h

us. i want to mention that. this is our army's effort to support the improvement and expansion efforts at arlington national cemetery. we're planning $84 million for site surveys, expansion efforts. and then $19 million for a total of $103 million for planning and development, for planning and design, pardon me, for future efforts. so it's about double what we got last year. >> and then for the health promotion risk reduction and suicide prevention, back a little bit. fy 11, 234. fy 12, 235 and then fy 13 is sitting at 21.1. >> so basically, soldier health and suicide prevention is going down by roughly 14 -- is that million or billion? million i would say, right? >> no. actually, if you look at the program, a particular program, the answer would be, yes, on that one. look at it holistically, the answer is, no. for fy 12, if we look at comprehensive soldier fitness, suicide prevention, sexual harass mant assault response, fy 12, 81.6. fq 13, 101 million. going up dramatically. just of those four programs, where those dollars are b

-wide family isri systems for the army that let's us take a number of i think nine independent systems and collapse them into one. i want to mention briefly network integration evaluations. this is a tremendous success story for the army and a good source of resources and true key to our modernization strategy. we're doing two we are per year. what we do in the nies, attributable to the way information technology makes general leaps much more quickly than the defense acquisition process tends to move. so what we're able to do in the nies, in partnership with our industry partners, we're able to concurrently test integration of capabilities before we begin to invest in significant procurement. we've had tremendous savings in wint. saved a significant amount from net warrior and are very, very proud of the outcomes that are associated with our network integration evaluation. under vehicle development, $954 million requested for rdt & e, by far the largest point, $640 million for a key modernization priorities, that's the ground combat vehicle. we have a three-prong ed r & d approach, inc

there is a lot of capability and ability of us to to create a new army well since you've mentioned the article of promise to put. well he is pretty worried he pretty concerned about the a.b.m. . well do we consider this the prime minister and one of the main candidates to russian presidency. do we all including the russian leadership consider the united states as a potential threat to russia to the. it goes without seeing the united states is not a potential threat to the russian army or the russian federation and goes without saying that the problem is there. some elements of foreign policy of the united states create some problems for the russian federation and one of these issues is missile defense and by the way. one example which is very interesting maybe for you as well as for. cortex who are sitting at the t.v. and listening to mr mcnamara what's of the first who was in favor of restriction on missile defense. the soviet union generals specialist at that time war began in your distinctions and the situation has changed now you see that the russian federation is in favor to have

everyone here says the situation in the same way was when armed people came here we asked the army to stand up for us now they are controlling the city at the delos shop is an area where much of the fight into place. i was away when i arrived the army told me there had been a big battle here is the army is now here there's no groups anymore no tension most of the daniel the clashes between security forces and the armed opposition groups here near the town of the dunny have been very severe how it all stopped the locals tell us that their town has a unique story when the violence started the residents decided to intervene and there has allegedly been an agreement between the army and the opposition that both of them leave the town although the military officer we have been able to speak to didn't confirm that and we can still see. many military and machinery inside the city we had a look around and counted at least thirteen tanks but the military tell us they were only used as protection on the way back through the checkpoint and officer keep supporting everyone suspicious in this violence locked nati

their homes the country's winter death toll has now reached seventy nine with authorities using helicopters and army trucks to deliver food and medicine since the end of january hundreds have died across eastern europe and tens of thousands have been housebound by record snow levels with moldova and albania also badly affected. greene is here next with the latest business. thank you and he said hello and welcome to business here and as we've been reporting iran is denying reports it's cut supply to six european countries iran's state run press t.v. said the country was halting supplies of oil to spain italy france greece portugal and the netherlands this caused oil prices to jump to a six month high let's look at the figures now futures rallied to the best level of five weeks light sweet is currently trading below one hundred ten two dollars a barrel of brant burned is hovering at eight one hundred eighteen and one hundred nineteen dollars per barrel. the euro is gaining a bit against the dollar after seeing some losses on tuesday who is high against both the european and the u.s. currencies followi

us. so the substitute. can attach like a well trained army. villages in ruins. land where time stands still. all becomes a sea of nothing. the mysterious sounds of russia. without the live from moscow time korea headlines now a un resolution on syria stops short of calling for outside intervention but reflects the wishes of the u.s. the u.n. some arab states to want to see president assad leave power by russia insists that should be no foreign interference. the u.k. is a high court it considers the fate of wiki leaks founder julian assange he's wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault the wiki leaks founder. politically motivated. secret u.s. . commitment to progress over its nuclear program. u.s. intelligence officials say the. special report takes a fresh look at the impact. lol . how fast. was. a terrible incident unfolding on the campus of virginia tech university in blacksburg virginia that's a couple of hours south of washington d.c. at least twenty people have been killed in at least two separate shooting incidents there is still a lot of activity there are still officers up

fact that i speak the language, the fact we had an afghan camera man will be to help the afghan army, they let ust the protesters were coming near. the army mere, many of the police officers, the shootinging we saw yesterday was because an afghan army soldier was angry at the u.s., but many feel that they should demonstrate that they should do it peacefully. >> thank you so much and take care over this. i want to bring in to talk more about the situation unfolding as well as other violence in the region, foermer ambassador, mark ginsburg. these have been afghan civilians and not the taliban as many might expect who are behind this. give me your take on what's happening right now? >> there's no doubt that throughout the arab and muslim world, the burning of thekoran is a -- act. i would get down on my hands and knees if it meant saving one more american life and to make sure that apology was carried out and broadcast as wide as possible. >> let me stop you there. i want to make sure people, that we know that the president did send this letter of apology to meet karzai. he called the incident inadd