Department Of Defense Authorization For Appropriations For Fiscal Year 2005 Vol 5 PDF Download

Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2004, Vol. 5: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eight Congress, First Session on S. 1050 Welcome, Senator Reed. Senator Reed. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator Roberts. I want to welcome our two distinguished witnesses. We have before us two of Americas most able and willing public servants. Admiral Giambastiani, we congratulate you on your confirmation to this important position in October. This is your first appearance before this subcommittee in your new capacity, but I am sure it will not be your last. Your leadership role as the joint forces trainer, provider, integrator, and innovator is critical to the timely and coordinated transformation of our Armed Forces, and I am sure we will seek your counsel often, so we welcome you. Admiral Cebrowski, you served our Nation well as a highly decorated sailor, and now you have selflessly taken on this very difficult and challenging chore of guiding the transformation of our Armed Forces, a concept around which many opinions abound. Some would say that they are unique and unprecedented ideas, and some would say brilliant and often controversial ideas that you have advocated while in the Navy, show you to be a man of vision and courage. We are fortunate to have you in this new role. I want to thank you for your past courtesy calls to me and suggestions to this subcommittee. You both are aware of the interest of this subcommittee, for strengthening our joint warfighting ability and our interest in the timely and meaningful transformation of our Armed Forces to meet the very different threats of the future. The testimony in this subcommittee in years past makes it clear that we have focused on many areas of joint military operations and capabilities. As Senator Reed knows, the passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Act in 1986 did initiate a process that has greatly changed the way our Armed Forces operate together. It puts into place processes to assess gaps in our joint capabilities and try to really identify the requirements to fix these gaps. Members of this subcommittee have been instrumental in getting a joint experimentation process initiated. I remember well my first trip to the Atlantic Command, that is what it was called in years past, and that was under the command of Admiral Gehman, and the difficulty staff and all of us had in obtaining any funding for any joint exercise. The events of September 11, however, changed a lot of things, including the urgency with which we need to review the capability of our Armed Forces to ensure that they are organized, trained, and equipped to be adaptable and capable of deterring and, if necessary, defeating known and emerging threats to our national security. We have the processes in place that should work, but we seem to relearn the same lessons in conflict after conflict. We also hear defense experts in and out of government really lament the lack of urgency for transformation, and our inability to rapidly acquire the new capabilities that we need. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.