House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith on Pentagon Oversight

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🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the current chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Rep. Smith, who has served on the committee for over two decades, discusses the work of overseeing the U.S. military and the late-stage negotiations of the annual National Defense Authorization Act. He and Morell also discuss near- and long-term strategic challenges for the Pentagon, including threats from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as well as those stemming from artificial intelligence, quantum computing and hypersonic weapons.

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0:28.0	This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell.
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0:35.3	Your mission is ours.
0:37.4	You can paint a number of nightmare scenarios and say we have to be ready for all.
0:41.0	We can't afford to be ready for all of them.
0:42.6	There's not enough money in the world to be ready for all of them.
0:46.2	So if you say, if I can show you a scenario that we're not ready for right now, then our
0:50.8	defense policy is failing.
0:52.3	Well, we may as well pack it up because we're always going to be failing.
0:55.2	Also, I think that way of looking at things leads us to try and spend our way into a problem.
1:03.1	What I would like us to come to is a more realistic idea of how we deter our adversaries
1:09.5	beyond the notion that if we can't guarantee overwhelming dominance, then we're done.
1:14.7	Because I don't think we can guarantee overwhelming dominance.
1:17.2	I don't think we have the money.
1:18.9	And I think the world is entirely too complicated to get to that point.
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