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Hello, and welcome to the LawFair podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittis, and this is the first

of three podcasts I recorded down at the Pacific Command's Military Operations and Law

Conference, which was held this year in Singapore. The Mill Ops Conference, as it is known, is

a long-running annual conference in which Paycom invites operational lawyers from around the

government, and more interestingly from around other militaries in the Pacific to discuss

their country's policies and positions on international law. This year's conferences had

delegations from among other countries, China, Malaysia, Australia, Vietnam, and Singapore,

our host country. The first of the three podcasts is a speech given Monday by Air Force General

Council Charles Blanchard, dealing with the Asia-Pacific Pivot, Space Law, and Cyber Law.

Well, thank you very much. The first one I saw was the thank yous, first of Paycom, for

putting on a truly remarkable agenda. I'm going to stay the week. I was attracted by

the quality of the speakers and the quality of the program, and I'm really looking forward

to an engagement both now and in the whole way that we take coffee breaks. I hope to

meet as many of you as possible. And second, I want to say thank you to our host here

at Singapore. I've been here a little more than 24 hours, and I've been extremely impressed

with our host here in the hotel, and I threw him a joint for the first time visiting

Singapore, so I want to thank the citizens and the military Singapore for your role

in pulling together this great conference. What I'm hopefully going to do today is talk

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