Happening now: "Nations fight wars...we fight in a combined environment w/our allies" @thejointstaff's Gen Mark Milley tells the Sea-Air-Space Global Maritime Exposition in Washington
"We are dependent, absolutely dependent...on a free & open ocean" per @thejointstaff's Gen Mark Milley
"The Navy that we have today is the best in the world & we want to keep it that way" per @thejointstaff's Gen Mark Milley
@USNavy's future depend on "decisions that are being made now" at the Pentagon, he adds
"The current int'l order is under intense & growing stress" warns @thejointstaff's Gen Mark Milley
Points to terrorists, #cyber actors, & competition from China
"#China will be a major agent of change... of that there is little doubt"
"We can see a fundamental change in the character of war is underway" per @thejointstaff's Gen Mark Milley
"Failure to recognize, adapt, capitalize...produces devastating consequences" he says "Today there are a whole set of technologies that are driving" the change
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"I have a sense of urgency...we have to be in a position to make sure that the status quo remains as it applies to #Taiwan"
"We certainly view w/concern many of the actions that we've seen from #Beijing" per @INDOPACOM's Adm Aquilino
#China's action in #HongKong "completely disconnected from the words from #Beijing to adhere to the agreement that was in place" he says, adding same w/#India border
"Some of the leading threats to the American way of life are #cyber enabled - from espionage to influence to attack" Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber Anne Neuberger tells #AspenSecurity
"#SolarWinds was not the 1st case of aggressive Russian cyber activity in int'l space" per @WHNSC's Neuberger
"In the case of #China, there's still that building of consensus around malicious cyber activity, around the need to call it out together" w/allies, per @WHNSC's Neuberger, adding that it "doesn't preclude follow-on activity"
"We've always said peace is the strategic choice of the Arabs..." per #SaudiArabia's @FaisalbinFarhan "What we have to do is focus on working towards a comprehensive solution to the #Palestinian issue"
"We already have an emboldened #Iran" per #SaudiArabia FM @FaisalbinFarhan when asked about US-#Tehran talks on getting back to the #JCPOA "Iran is extremely active in the region w/its negative activity"
On Monday, he told @VOANews' @AyazGul64 "The [Afghan] government cannot get rid of the #Taliban" & "the Taliban cannot conquer Afghanistan & have a gvt & that has the support of the overwhelming majority of the Afghans"
"The Talibs [#Taliban] have been emboldened by the development of recent weeks in terms of the gains they have made & are in a maximalist frame of mind"
.@US4AfghanPeace says US assessment is that neither side can achieve a military solution
"There is no alternative, ultimately, to a political settlement"