 Great. Thank you, Dr. Klein. I'm sorry, Admiral Klein. I appreciate that introduction. It's very nice of you. Good to see everybody today. You having a good day? Everybody get their PT in today? I know. You guys think you're going to take a year off, right? So look, first of all, congratulations on being selected to come to the Naval War College. It's a fantastic time. This obviously demonstrates your exceptional potential and talent. And this is also a reason why it's such a critical year in your development. You are here to become strategic thinkers in so many ways. I would count you on one thing. Make sure you know the National Defense Strategy inside and out. It is the compass by which we are navigating the future, and I'll try and state in nautical terms as much as I can here for you guys. You know, many of you spent most of your career fighting irregular warfare or engaging in it, whether it's off the coasts or in Iraq and Afghanistan, but times have changed. We are now in an era of great power competition. Our strategic competitors are Russia and China. It doesn't mean that we still don't have to deal with threats such as North Korea and Iran and certainly violent extremist organizations. But keep in mind, the focus is on great power competition. China and Russia do remain our greatest threats. So the question is how do we contend with those threats today? Because I want to prime the conversation that Q&A we're going to have. As I have spoken out publicly, I see the greatest challenge that I have that the department faces is how do we balance the present versus the future? How do we offset near-term readiness versus future modernization or future readiness, as we like to say? I think this is the department's central challenge. As future senior leaders, all of you must have this larger context in mind because this affects how we organize, train and equip the force. It certainly impacts how we employ and deploy the force and how we posture ourselves around the world. A strong network of like-minded allies and partners is also critical. That's line of effort two of our national defense strategy. And it's particularly important as we deal with a future where revisionist powers such as Russia and China try to undermine the western liberal order that we've established now for many, many decades, and to challenge it and to challenge the leadership of the world. I've traveled to the Indo-Pacific Theater earlier this month. It was my first trip because that is our priority theater. And I heard many firsthand stories from our allies and partners in the region, whether it was Australia and New Zealand, Japan and Korea or Mongolia, about the troubling situation they face in that theater. Many are hesitant to publicly confront China's aggressive behavior in the theater because China, as we all know, possesses significant political and economic leverage over them. I can't tell you how many anecdotes where I had foreign leaders tell me about China's behavior in forums and conferences and other engagements, one-on-one, or in a multilateral setting that is particularly troubling. China's Belt and Road Initiative is gaining them significant leverage in the region, and our challenge is to work with our allies and partners to compete. Our allies and partners want us to lead, and hopefully we'll hear from some of you here today that are present. But to do that, we must also be present in the region, not everywhere, but we have to be in the key locations. This means looking at how we expand our basing locations, investing more time and resources into certain theaters, certain regions we haven't been to in the past. It also means we have to continue to fly, to sell, and to operate wherever international rules allow to preserve freedom of navigation for both military and commercial operations, whether it's the Strait of Hormuz or whether it's the Malacca Straits. The world is only becoming more complex in the future, so I need all of you to help ready the joint force to deter conflict and, if necessary, to fight and win. That is our challenge, and that's what I hope you all will be thinking about and focused on during your year here at the Naval War College.