Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses. You offer some very thoughtful comments.
Possibly one of the most significant strategic developments in the last few weeks and months has been President Obama's pivot towards the Pacific, and generally where the Americans pivot we will follow. If you put that within the context that a lot of our NATO partners are broke or near broke, if you put that in the context that, as Professor Bercuson said, the not broke member is Germany but they have a deeply held value of passiveness, and given President Putin's somewhat bellicose ways of late, it strikes me that we are going to almost necessarily be reorienting away from the Atlantic and more to the Pacific, and indeed up to and into the Arctic, for the foreseeable future.
If in fact that's a valid working premise, how do you see a study of readiness addressing that change in strategic reality and planning?
I was rather hoping the navy guy would go with that first.