Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I have two areas of questioning.
You established that there's vital interest in the Caribbean and Latin America. Obviously, we have issues dealing with global warming, oil exploration in the Arctic, and some strategic issues with regard to contested space there. In the Pacific Ocean, there's the rise of China, particularly maybe an arms race, and dealing with the navy. When Professor Bland was before us, he argued we should be building a navy-centric rather than an army-centric military in order to respond to these issues. Could you comment?