 Thank you chief Morris. Thank you chiefs welcome welcome back from lunch I trust it was healthy and nutritious and I'm going to struggle to keep everybody's focus after we had such a such a great lunch But I think we've got a really fun topic to talk about even though I only get to talk about it at an unclassified level but talking about national defense strategy that was set forth from the Secretary of Defense last year and It's ultimately changed the paradigm of how we in intelligence take a look at our problem sets and how we can solve these problem sets and it Gives us a little bit of a structure now if you've seen previous briefings that attack what we do on a global scale Maybe you've heard the the Intel equation of four plus one well now We're in a two plus three concept, and I'm going to Explain that here very shortly because as we see within the national defense strategy And I do want to take a poll of people of who has actually read the national defense strategy Very good response. I I hope everybody takes the time over Over the next few weeks and months to please go over that document because it really does outline how the paradigm is shifted in particularly over the past 20 years of conflict as we've seen As we have evolved from really fighting against an asymmetric warfare fight and against rogue nations and really seeing a reemergence of great power competition rising up against us trying to evolve within a post-World War two order and maintaining that as The great powers are really trying to pull apart our NATO alliances and greater alliances that we use That are very pivotal to how we are able to execute our day-to-day operations in our global Operations as it is a truly global fight. Where are my partner? nation represent representatives here today So great. Thank you so much for everything of what you do that really helps us bring strategic power To you know to the globe and everything you do is as we work together So so we see once again is the two plus three concept now as we talk about our great power Competitors of China and Russia and then we'll also delve in in more detail on the DPRK Iran and as well as violent extremism So let's take a look at the map and we see the physical area that these competitors take place But really it's when we talk about how cyber works in and through these capabilities And as violent extremism perpetuates throughout the whole planet really they're not constrained anymore to borders Really as far as influence in trying to propagate Technologies and capabilities it really is a global threat environment as we go through the multiple regions and functions And working through the different domains, and we've already talked about Multi-domain command and control and how cyber capabilities enables all of that. That's really what we're talking about So when we look at adversary goals We'll start off with China and how they're really trying to pursue a National rejuvenation and they're going through really in the same way that we talk about the American dream well Xi Jinping has established what he calls his Chinese dream and China is actually getting ready to celebrate the first of two 100-year anniversaries the first of which which will take place in 2021 is The 100th anniversary of Communist Party rule within China and now the centenary goal for that was for China to be able To be an economic power that doubles its GDP Over from 2010 and they've already been able to do that three years ahead of their goal Their second goal as of 2049 that will be the 100th anniversary of the People's Republic of China And they want to be the preeminent power supplanting us within within the world and They look to do this in multiple different ways Maybe you've heard of the Belt and Road initiative where it's a way for For China to not only be the regional hegemon and in control Finances and all sorts of logistics within the Pan-Asian region But also building capabilities that will link real really global commerce and be able to control When controlling global commerce at that level ultimately it's going to have an effect on a battle space as well When we talk about Russia we talk about a nation that went through a bit of an identity crisis coming out of Coming out of the 90s and through the 90s once the Soviet Union fell and trying to re-establish itself As a as a global power and we see them Ultimately trying to to flex their muscles and and corner the market as far as their their weapons development and proliferation and Using that to help spur on an economy that had been struggling which is now starting to To be able to regenerate itself and they're trying to assert themselves a little bit more globally We'll take a little bit more of a look at that in North Korea now We get into these rogue regimes and a lot of what they're trying to do in Korea is really legitimizing that particular regime and instead of having the world looking at Kim Jong-un as a despot Last week. What was he able to do? He was able to get the world to look at him in the summit basically on par with The the world's top leaders and that's really what North Korea is trying to do with all the flexing their muscle with their Nuclear capability and their military capability is really showing that you know It's an information campaign to their own people to show their own might and that they actually have a seat at the big boy table With with the rest of the main world powers Iran trying to extend their particular influence and we see this in multiple areas within the Middle East with their With their influence in Yemen as well as in Iraq and in Syria talking about materiel and fighters and other capabilities that perpetuate their ability to grasp onto that Key terrain as well as violent extremist organizations So when we're talking about both ISIS and al-qaeda and they kind of have a couple of separate different goals So when we talk about al-qaeda trying to destabilize nation-state authority that we've been trying to build up of the past couple of decades in Afghanistan as well as trying to ISIS trying to reestablish the caliphate that the combined joint task force operational inherent resolve has been able to Decline over the past three years So we'll let's take a deeper look at China and what they've been able to To ultimately accomplish on the nuclear side They are rapidly modernizing their nuclear capabilities and rapidly modernizing their force All the while trying to maintain that they are a non-first use entity Then the numbers are somewhere between 260 to 280 actual warheads that they have which really makes them the The second smallest of the top five nuclear powers as far as how many active warheads They have within their arsenal, but they are they are still very active in Not only Producing warheads, but also delivery mechanisms for that aim doing Intercontinental ballistic missile tests as well and that goes straight into the space discussion because space capabilities and ICBM capabilities sort of go hand-in-hand and also focusing on Satellite communications robust ISR capabilities once again getting into that command and control discussion China's trying to develop Much stronger capabilities in that realm as well as they try to control and influence the battle space to to their Effects within within space as well They're getting a very growing customer base for space lift In the Pan-Asian region and further We see a lot of smaller nations that are just getting into the space realm that are building small satellite packages that are looking to other countries to be able to lift their capabilities up into space and China has taken the forefront in In allowing them to use their rockets to be able to put their capabilities up in space and they're and they're looking to be a Leader with that well the more robust that space lift capability is you can it's immediately applicable to what they're doing with the ballistic missile development as well and China is actually very key on the fact that they are very much against what they would call American weaponization of space and trying to get Russia in on It's capability to say we're going to deter the US at every step of trying to weaponize space well it's mostly also to Move people away from looking at their own anti-satellite Capability and and they see they see that is more protecting themselves against American weaponization vice developing their own space-based weapons Within the cyber realm China is very well developed and think about it this way China is actually the largest English-speaking country on the planet. So what capability does that give a country like China? Well, they have lots of capability that they have that they have developed through cyber reach to be able to reach into American networks and we We see this as we've got fifth generation Cyber development through the company Huawei and we already know that you know the United States Japan Australia to name a few No longer use any type of of Huawei capability For their government networks, but that's also something that you know potentially other partner nations could be using that type of capability and in China Obviously with a close-off nature of their regime. It's actually in their laws That force the handover of data from any company if it has any type of a military application So we keep that in mind when when we talk about 5g and data and that goes straight into the air and air defense portion of the chart because a lot of the the knowledge and capability of catching up to like fourth and fifth generation fighter development and weapon development within China largely has happened through through cyber means of Stolen intellectual property that China has been able to perpetuate now the struggle that China is going to have moving forward Ultimately getting to that fifth generation goal is really being able to develop their own capability that they can own and cultivate and And be able to advance As well as adding advanced munitions to those air-to-air capabilities whether we're talking Hypersonic capability is something that they're they're fast developing as well as unmanned aerial vehicles and which is really key for Throughout the region for them to build their capability and their fourth generation fighters actually They just recently had an air show where the J-16 has come online and talking about Once again, we we talked a little bit earlier about of small sat capability within the Pan-Asian region. Well, there are also Air forces within the Pan-Asian region and beyond that are looking to expand their particular capability and China's trying to Grow their ability in the market to be able to bring other air forces up to speed with Chinese capabilities And we take a look at Russia Many of us know that Russia has the the largest nuclear stockpile and now not to be Encumbered by the INF treaty which was just torn asunder just a few weeks ago So now President Putin in early February after after President Trump backed out of INF treaty Which is the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty now? President Putin has said that well We're going to redevelop those intermediate range nuclear capabilities that were previously banned under the INF treaty As well as modernizing all the delivery systems to that very robust capability that they have so about 4500 strategic weapons Both both strategic and non strategic weapons that they have within their stockpile very robust space capability once again, they're they're trying to recover their economy and and ultimately and Ultimately bringing that that space capability a lot of people still don't realize They're the ones who are actually taking our astronauts up into space so they can use that capability as sort of diplomatic leverage against us If should we actually increase? sanctions on on them Also very rapidly developing anti-satellite capabilities in concert with with China to deter us freedom of action within space very very sophisticated cyber and electronic warfare capabilities a lot of a lot of what our strategic Competitors would would use they a lot of them use Russian equipment and we've seen them use a lot of this capability as they've infiltrated Into Ukraine in Syria and also into Georgia with those conflicts that that they've been able to to use as a basically a first Initial into the conflict a type of a capability But within within air and air defense We see them using especially in Syria. This has been their proving ground for all of their capability We see a lot of of testing and development and operational actually using new weapons new capabilities Whether it's new radar systems, whether it's new aircraft capabilities Integrated integrated missile defense once again, this is a country that's very highly Reliant on their surface-to-air missile capability But getting really good with their TTPs and passing those on To their Syrian counterparts and doing a lot of great lessons learned for their command and control capabilities now we're going to get into our rogue regimes a little bit starting with North Korea and the summit as I just mentioned before just Just wrapped up last week. There was no deal that was struck and some of you may have actually read some of the headlines from today that one of the Missile production facilities up in North Korea is back up and running so what's not clear is if it was already running prior to the summit or if If this is a result of no deal actually being brokered between North Korea and the US in the lifting of sanctions on to North Korea, but Ultimately, how do we get to this point a very large? ramp up of capability, especially when we look back into 2016 2017 of North Korea's fielding of Intercontinental ballistic missile capability and we actually saw their first two tests that went off without failure With systems that have the ability to range the continental US So still very committed despite still trying to win the court of global public opinion of how the the US needs to lift sanctions on on them as soon as Kim Jong-un was able to declare himself a nuclear state that was ultimately his ticket to To the the seat of saying I am a legitimate nuclear power now Let's let's bring this to the table and and start talking negotiations naturally We we are looking for a lot more So no launches in 2018, but also looking to use that capability within a space sense and and looking to actually use those Use the development of an of an emerging space capability to Continue their ballistic missile Ames or within the cyber realm not as developed as China or Russia but still but still showing quite an aptitude for that as well as Most of their their attacks or most of the focus is south of the border into South Korea some targeted attacks mostly using ransomware and and those types of Abilities to extort money for them obviously for for them to be able to gain More access to materials and an air and air defense. We take a look at North Korea that We say that they have a lot of antiquated Capability when we look at their aircraft or their missile defense systems, but the regimented Ability for them to be able to exercise and be able to use this capability They are really competent and really good at using a lot of this older capability So we look past the fact that they're using outdated equipment They're very proficient at using outdated equipment And once again relying on a lot of surface-to-air missiles and in triple-a that they have in mass In order to be able to counter any threat and then moving on to the other rogue state Iran and another deal that ultimately fell by the wayside in the joint comprehensive plan of action which or as many of you know as the Iran nuclear deal and When that fell basically that that Removed any guidelines that kept Iran from the ability to be able to develop a nuclear weapon within a year for their stockpiles So previously under JCPOA it would it would take them five years or more with With the amount of centrifuges that they had on hand as well as the amount of highly enriched uranium that they had in Or for them to be able to build a weapon now without those without those chains on them Provided by JCPOA they have the ability to be able or with they have enough highly enriched uranium They could conceivably have One year out timeline from developing a nuclear weapon Very minimal space presence, but we did see them conduct a launch an unsuccessful launch last month But they are broadly exploring that capability in order to once again Crossover that ballistic missile capability in space capability. They share a lot of technology with North Korea So once again invested in each other in order to be able to develop capabilities and Trying to evolve their cyber capabilities then we've seen a couple of different instances where Where Iran has perpetrated very key facilities and key capabilities like Saudi Aramco back in 2012 as well as back in 2017 in 2012 a focused a focused hack from the The Revolutionary Guard Corps Actually knocked out 30,000 computers and stopped production from Saudi Aramco So it's a very a very considerable capability as well as They had an attack on a New York dam facility back in 2012 a very similar attack against a Security-controlled and data acquisition system that can control a large capability that has both military and civilian capabilities to that so surface-to-surface missile independent and are working very hard to Further develop that capability despite despite sanctions investing really heavily in unmanned aerial vehicles And we're seeing a lot of that capability especially down in in Yemen with with those types of those types of capabilities being used and and talking just like in North Korea some outdated outdated systems But looking to update their capabilities But once again very proficient with the outdated systems that they have and very reliant upon Other rogue states to help bring them up in their capability Now we talk about violent extremism and we think about the the ISIS problem Imagine The ISIS caliphate what you see in that map up there the gray areas what the ISIS caliphate was at its Largest strength about four years ago and now that red dot at around the Atomf garrison there in the tri-border region is really The last real stronghold of what we would call ISIS's physical caliphate But imagine that caliphate in dealing with it like squeezing a water balloon So the the harder you squeeze it you're going to get water coming through your fingers and it's going to ultimately perpetrate in all different directions and You know and all over and that's ultimately what we've seen with the caliphate as the physical caliphate has gone We see a lot more Mobilization if you look at the map down below it And a lot more ability through decentralized execution Decentralized leadership then be able to perpetrate lone wolf attacks and other coordinated attacks using that capability so being able to eradicate ISIS I It's sometimes seen as a misnomer. Well, we've won the war against ISIS No, we haven't really the war has just begun as far as what we're doing against these violent extremists organizations looking on the al-qaeda side and Talked a little bit about how they're really trying to legitimate or legitimize their role in What's going on in Afghanistan as the government is trying to? build its capability and be and become a lot more legitimate Trying to tear apart the the internationally recognized government there and Establish one that's more favorable to their aims and Perpetrating all sorts of recruitment bases and we see this going through There's a big push to be able to recruit into sub-saharan Africa and it's a major Area because now they're going into areas that are not predominantly Muslim But yet are able to exploit an area that is generally generally repressed and Sewing, you know, sowing all sorts of seeds for for chaos and destruction there in in places that are not traditionally Muslim so ultimately What what I want what I want everybody to be able to take away from this discussion is ultimately the way The national defense strategy has has shown our fight has really evolved over over the last 20 years And where we didn't necessarily worry about great powers. Those great powers are catching up to us Very rapidly But if we devote all of our attention to those great powers Once again, we're losing sight on a lot of those asymmetric capabilities So this is once again why we bring in a whole coalition Of of help and wealth and experience that we rely upon every single day And we appreciate everything of what you guys do So here's a very quick picture of what we're looking at with our intelligence challenge And I'll take any questions that you have this time And we have the post lunch lull I see But once again ladies and gentlemen, I really appreciate your attention. Thank you so much. Congratulations chiefs And uh, have a great conference. Thank you. Right. Look at that time Where was that this morning? Huh? Sorry, I didn't mean to say that out loud just kidding all right I think we are all set Got one slide to come up real quick for this afternoon. Just wanted to kind of show you guys the uh location for the elective electives