Defense Secretary Jim Mattis delivers the keynote address at the Air Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., Sept. 20, 2017. www.dvidshub.net/video/552782...
General Mattis is my favourite Cabinet Secretary! One of our President's greatest moves was to appoint him. Thank you for the share. I always love hearing from General Mattis.
Un lider care se naște rar! Un om de mare valoare! Secretarul Apărării Gen. James N. Mattis, este prelungirea mâinii lui Dumnezeu. Dedicat națiunii.A înfăptuit atât de multe, într un timp scurt. Lider cu personalitate completă! A planificat, câteva file de istorie, scrisă cu litere de aur. Pace!
What a solid Secretary of Defence Mattis is. I had never heard of him till about six months ago but over that period have built an immense respect for him. He was tailor made for the position. What a great man.
Secretary Mattis: " I believe the problem (he's speaking of America's specific military problem) that we face today is how to do we maintain a nuclear deterrent and a decisive conventional force while maintaining irregular warfare as a core competency because the paradox of war is the enemy will always move against your perceived weakness".
Now i know where trump got his idea of "priming the pump"from, right here folks because he is the presence of this great gentle man -Gen Mad dog Mattis -Great speech to learn from his control over this audience is a master at work
Dear General, I will first read the documents, only after reading the protocol I myself will decide which country to go to, after all, I am wounded, all warriors
What a great sigh of sweet relief to have men like this in Cabinet posts during this new Administration. I pray each day for them to make the right decisions for this awesome nation. Blown away by his cool confidence and knowledge in this leadership role.
The US military could save a billion dollars while increasing lethality by leveraging free software and open source instead of having multiple contractors rewriting and charging multiple times. (And also being the only people who understand the code and are capable of making changes.) There have been some efforts in the past such as forge.mil, but it needs to be reinvigorated and pushed from the top to deal with the politics and get all the savings. I talked to a Marine recently who was using Red Hat Linux on his remote camera system, and he was happy with it, but he said that most of the military was moving to Windows 10. Pushing the department and contractors to use free software and open source is not easy and will take time, but it will force reuse and decrease delays in projects like the F-35. The F-35 apparently has 8 million lines of code C++ / Java, but if it had for example leveraged the Python language and rich community, their code could be at least 10x smaller. Python has a community of 100K+ programmers contributing to the language and libraries. Leveraging that language will let the military move at the speed of industry. There's a codebase called PyTorch which isn't copyleft but is good enough to win World War 4. One big challenge to sharing code is the 100+ programming languages in use by the industry. It is really a mess, and some systems like Node.js are considered a cancer! It is worth trying to standardize on a programming language to facilitate sharing. Rewriting codebases in a new language might not be worth it, but it's good to have goals and standards! Another big challenge and opportunity is moving from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. That could save 100 million dollars per year but converting millions of documents takes time and there will be some with problems. The Library of Congress can help. There is so much money to be saved from all the proprietary software vendors that it is worth spending and building teams to push the transition. Note that Red Hat Linux costs money too, but you are paying for a service relationship. You could one day build your own Linux. I've heard the NSA has made custom Linux systems. I'm finishing a documentary that will discuss some of this. I've written a book that goes into more detail.
instead of talking about destroy our adverary out right like his predecessor, He is talking about hold the line now. How far have we fall from the top.
