[Salon] Bergman Opening Statement at Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations FY24 Markup | U.S. Representative Jack Bergman



More on the “Party of Realism and Restraint!” (Not a “defense” of the Democrats as they mimic the Republicans.) 

"Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, introduced the bill that would authorize military force in Mexico in January. It currently has 20 Republican co-sponsors, including two who lead panels on the House Armed Services Committee: Reps. Mike Waltz of Florida and Jack Bergman of Michigan.

"All the leading Republican presidential candidates have advocated using military force in Mexico against drug cartels, including former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.”


Just what we need, an Afghanistan style war on our Southern Border, with “reciprocity” a fundamental principle of warfare, so that we can expect military style attacks upon the US itself as a result of this “militarization.” With it to be noted that this was in fact one of Trump’s DOD’s last actions, bring Israel into a US Combatant Command:  

"The Pentagon last moved a country to a different combatant command in 2021, when it transferred Israel from U.S. European Command to U.S. Central Commandto more effectively coordinate against Iran with Arab security partners."






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Bergman Opening Statement at Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations FY24 Markup

U.S. Representative Jack Bergman (R-MI), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations Subcommittee, delivered the following opening statement at the subcommittee markup for H.R. 2670 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. The Subcommittee's mark is available here.
 
Rep. Bergman’s remarks as prepared for delivery:

Good afternoon. Welcome to the Intelligence and Special Operations subcommittee mark for the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.

Before we begin, I would like to thank Ranking Member Gallego for his support and contribution to the mark as well as the members of the subcommittee for their efforts as we developed this bipartisan subcommittee mark.
 
The mark focuses the Special Operations Forces and the Defense Intelligence Enterprise to ensure they can support the Department’s efforts in strategic competition and counter China. To accomplish this, the Intelligence and Special Operations community must have the appropriate authorities, force structure, flexibility and technically and tactically competent people to accomplish the mission. The subcommittee mark accomplishes this by supporting the Defense Intelligence Enterprise’s continued efforts to focus resources to counter China in new domains; reforming the training and management of the security cooperation workforce in order to better support the Geographic Combatant Commanders’ efforts to counter China and Russia by ensuring that the United States is the military partner of choice; as well as increased flexibility in the Combatant Commander’s Initiative Fund to meet the emergent needs of the commanders. The mark also requires the military service secretaries in coordination with SOCOM and the Assistant Secretary for Special Operations and Low-intensity Conflict to review the force structure and personnel requirements of special operations forces to ensure they can meet the demands of strategic competition, counter China, and counter violent extremist organizations simultaneously. And finally, the mark codifies the current section 1202 of the FY18 NDAA Support of Special Operations for Irregular Warfare to continue the United States efforts in strategic competition with partner nations to build the capability to resist and counter aggression from nations such as Russia and China.
 
I also want to take this opportunity to thank our tremendous professional staff led by Craig, and includes Joe Bartlett, Will Johnson, and Zach Calderon; without this team, the mark would not be possible


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