I think we talked about the approaches to the homeland or east and west coasts. It doesn't matter in distinguishing between either of them: illegal immigration, transnational criminal organizations....
But we're not blind in the Pacific, because we are fully partnered in the Pacific as well. I have an exchange officer, a liaison officer in the Pacific Command, quartered in Hawaii. We have a general officer as a J-3, an operations staff, inside Pacific Command. I have liaison and exchange officers in Australia in Joint Operations Command. Like they leverage us for understanding our neighbourhood, we leverage them for understanding their neighbourhood.
The challenges we're seeing in the Pacific are real. But certainly in the Pacific, like elsewhere, there's no “same as last year”. Everything seems to be changing, and “the same as last year” is a term we used in the Cold War. We don't use it anymore, because next year is different from this, and this year is different from last. We're not blind to what's changing, nor are we blind to the risk of threats that exist in the Pacific.