Hi, have you ever wondered how encryption works? The word encryption is tossed around everywhere, on the internet, everywhere, right? Security encryption, this is what people say. But encryption is actually really cool, you know? Encryption, how encryption works is that you can meet a stranger in a public place and share information securely without knowing the stranger, right? It's a stranger, you've never met them and you're sharing information without any code word. If you've ever heard of the word cryptography, cryptography works by having a code word set up beforehand, right? You know exactly how to scramble information and unscramble it. But with encryption, public key encryption, in fact, you meet someone for the first time in a public environment. Everyone can hear and see what you're doing, but you still manage to set up a code word without anyone else knowing how that works. So let's talk about how that works and let's talk about how we can do the same using an example of paint. So I'm going to explain the process using paint colors. Firstly, for encryption to work, me and the other person, so the two people, right, have to select a private color. So I'll tell the person, okay, select your own private color. Don't tell anyone about it and keep it to yourself. So the public doesn't know, but I don't know the other person's private color either, right? It's a private color. So here's an example of a full shot with the two private colors selected. Simple. The next thing is we're going to select a common color, like a shared color. This is a public color and everyone's going to hear it. Imagine I tell the other person, okay, I picked the color yellow, right? The whole public is going to know. The only way for me to tell the other person is for the whole public to know, right? So I tell the person, okay, I've picked the color yellow. So now both of us have our own private colors that's unique to us and no one knows about it and the shared color, right? What we're going to do is we're going to mix these colors, right? We're going to take, I'm going to take some of my private color. I'm going to take that public color and I'm going to mix it. And the other person is going to do the exact same thing. So we both have mixed our personal colors and the shared color together. And we're going to share the new color, right? So imagine my personal color was A, his personal color was B, and a common color was C. My new mixture will be AC, which is personal color and public color. And his combination will be BC, B being the personal color and C being, you know, the common color. So now we have this and we've shared this with the public. So the public knows, you know, what the shared color is and what the mixtures are of the shared color with the private color for both of us. And I know his mixture and he knows my mixture, right? So we know each other's mixture. What we're going to do next is the real secret to encryption. What we're going to do is we're going to mix our personal color, our private color with the other person's mixture, right? So I'm going to take his mixture of his personal color and the public color and mix that with my private color. And he's going to do the same thing, right? He's going to take my mixture of my personal color and my public color and he's going to mix it with his private color. And what we get is we actually get the same paint color now. Because now in this new mixture that we have created, this mixture is not going to be shared, by the way. It's our personal mixture. This is our code. If you see the full chart here, remember I was talking about ABC. You can see that the colors that we've created are now identical. And the beautiful thing is the public cannot create this combination themselves. In fact, here's a chart of all the publicly available information that we have shared, right? Remember anything we share between each other, the public can hear everything, right? Back in war times, imagine we're using telegraph or some sort of like radio communication. Everyone could hear what you're saying, right? So how do you share information secretly when everyone can hear what you're saying without setting up a key beforehand? This is how you do it. This is what the public knows and look at the number of combinations. They can try to create the same paint, but if they do mix it, what's going to happen is they're going to have a little bit of extra of one color in all the combinations. And they won't be able to get the exact same combination. So this is great. This is paint, right? You might be wondering, okay, how does paint relate to the internet? The internet can't be using paint colors when they send information. That's too weird, right? What the internet does in encryption, modern encryption, how it works is that they use multiplication. In fact, they usually have some complex equations that do squaring and do multiplication upon multiplication. But imagine this, right? Let's take the number 60. The number 60 can be created by multiplying the number 2 and 30. So 2 times 30 is 60. The number 3 times 20 is also 60. The number 1 times 60 is also 60. We know the number 60, but we don't know what numbers have created it. You know, it's like paint. We don't know if the paint, which is the numbers 2 and 30, have made the 60, or if the numbers 3 and 20 have made the 60, or if the numbers may be even 15 and 4, right? 15 times 4 is also 60. There's so many different combinations of numbers that can make 60. Same thing with paint, right? There's so many different combinations of colors that can make them one paint color that the person can't really tell what your private color was and it can't create that same code, right? If he wants to try guessing, he can try guessing all these combinations. With the number 60, there are only about a few different combinations, right? There's 15 and 4. There's 15 times 4. There's 2 times 30. 3 times 20, 60 times 1 and a couple others. But there are a few different combinations. So it's very easy to guess which one's right. You can just play the guessing game. But in modern encryption on the internet, they use huge numbers with thousands, about millions of different combinations. So it's very, very, very hard to guess what number it is. That's why encryption is so secure. And the beautiful thing about it is I don't have to know the person from before. We don't have to have a common code word or a secret thing. We can just meet on the internet publicly, meet for the very first time in the public and create a secure connection without ever having met before. So yeah, that's encryption. If you want more details, I've written a full detailed article, which can be found in the description. Do check that out. Thanks.


The Australian Curriculum is designed to help students learn what they need to know, understand and be able to do, to be confident in creative individuals and active and informed citizens. The Australian Curriculum sets goals for what all students should learn wherever they live and whatever school they attend. In September 2015 the Education Council endorsed the Australian Curriculum Foundation to Year 10 in eight learning areas, English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, the Arts, Technologies, Health and Physical Education and Languages. The Council also endorsed Work Studies, an optional subject for students in Years 9 and 10, which helps them become better prepared for the world of work. Some of the eight learning areas of the Australian Curriculum bring a number of subjects together. For example, in the primary years, Humanities and Social Sciences draws together history, geography, civics and citizenship and economics and business into one learning area. The key elements of the Australian Curriculum are content descriptions and achievement standards. The content descriptions detail the knowledge, understanding and skills that will be taught each year or across a band of years. The achievement standards describe what students will know and will be able to do as a result of the teaching and learning in the classroom. In addition to learning area content, the Australian Curriculum pays particular attention to a set of seven general capabilities. These capabilities encompass knowledge, skills and behaviours that will equip young Australians to live and work successfully in the 21st century. Priorities critical to Australia's future, such as a student's understanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures are also built into the Curriculum across various learning areas. While the Australian Curriculum sets expectations for what we want students to learn, it doesn't specify how content must be taught. Schools and teachers have the flexibility to make the decisions about how they teach the Curriculum, taking account of the needs of their students, the requirements of their school and where appropriate the requirements of their local Curriculum Authority. For over two decades now, Australia has been moving towards a national Curriculum. With the National Assessment Programme and National Reporting Programmes, ACARA's key functions form a foundation for the improvement of learning outcomes for all Australian students. I encourage you to view the endorsed Curriculum on our website. Thank you.


Hello and welcome to a video about derivatives of power and constant functions. So the power rule, if you recall, says that if f of x is x to the nth power, then the derivative is f prime of x equals n times x to the n minus 1. So this value of n is just any number, be it a decimal, a fraction, a negative number, anything in there, then this power rule will work. So example one says find the derivative of each of the following functions using proper notation. Okay, so the first function I'm giving you here is g of x equals x to the 2 thirds power. Why don't you go ahead and pause the video for a second, see if you can follow the power rule as it's written up here above and come up with a derivative. So the notation for this one would be g prime of x is going to equal. So we already have this written as a power x to the n, so in this case n is going to be 2 thirds. So I'm going to drop that 2 thirds out front, x to the, then the power rule says you want to subtract 1. So 2 thirds minus 1 is going to give us a negative 1 third. Because remember 2 thirds minus 1 is the same thing as 3 thirds, so 2 thirds minus 3 thirds gives us a negative 1 third. Now there's many different ways you can write this notation then, but that just depends on your instructor and what they expect of you. So I'm just going to leave it as this equation and then you can simplify it from there if necessary. Okay, next equation is p of t equals 1,358. So this is a constant function. I don't see a power in here though, unless you remember the fact that this is really times x to the 0 power. So when you bring that power down, that's going to end up giving us a derivative of 0. Now another way you can think about this too is if you were to graph the function 1,358, it would end up being a horizontal line. Horizontal lines have 0 slope, so of course the derivative is going to be 0. Okay, next one in this example is m of z equals 1 over z to the 2 power or z squared. So for this particular one, we are going to do a little bit of rewriting because the power rule says that our base has to be x and then we have to have a number for our exponent. In this case, I mean zx, variable doesn't matter, but we can't do anything with this 1 over. So we're going to have to go back to our algebra days and rewrite this as z to the negative 2 power. So remember whenever you have a fraction, bring it up, that makes your exponent turn negative. So our derivative in this case, m prime of z, is going to be, so our n is negative 2, so you're going to bring down negative 2, z to the negative 2 minus 1 is going to give us a negative 3. Okay, next example I have, and this just has a little bit different notation. So this d over dx just means take the derivative with respect to x. So in this case, x is our variable. And the function that we want to look at is 1 over the square root of x. So even though the directions look very different than the directions for the first example we did, it's asking the same thing. So find the derivative of this function with respect to x. But again, this one's kind of like the very last one we did. I see a fraction, so we're going to have to do a little bit of rewriting, and I also see a root. Oh goodness, okay, so we're going to have to do a lot of rewriting, but that's okay. So thinking back to your algebra days again, if you have the square root of x, that's defined to be x to the 1 half power. So I can take one step to rewrite this as 1 over x to the 1 half power, and then I can do like we did in the last example. That's going to be x to the negative 1 half power.  I'm just trying to break it down a little bit so you can see where things come from. Okay, now I have something that's written as x to a power, so I can go ahead and do my derivative. So in this case, my n is a negative a half. So I have negative a half x to the negative 1 half minus 1. So that's negative 1 half minus 2 halves gives us a negative 3 halves. And that would be our final answer. Again, this can be rewritten just depending on what your instructor expects out of you, but I'm going to leave it like this for now and leave the algebra to you. Thank you for watching.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering AWS re-invent 2017, presented by AWS, Intel, and our ecosystem of partners. Good morning from AWS re-invent 2017. I'm Lisa Martin with theCUBE. This is our third day of coverage, wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling. I'm with my great co-host, Stu Miniman, and we are excited to be joined by CUBE alumni, Paul Manis, the VP of the Global Cloud Group and that Veeam, welcome back to theCUBE. Hey, Lisa, thanks for having me. Great to have you. We're excited that you're here on day three. You look caffeinated, your feet are arrested. I am ready to go. And you have a voice, which is more than I think we can say for Stu. I can't, I don't know if it's going to be that way at the end of the day, but we'll see. Lisa, we're going to get somebody to do ASL for me. Oh, wow, that's interesting. So, one of the things that you said when you were on theCUBE back at Veeamon, which I love the name, by the way, was that in terms of how businesses should think of the cloud, they should think of it as a way to deliver business services and business results rather than a destination. Expand on that, and how does Veeam help customers and businesses understand and apply that? Sure, so I think a lot of customers talk about we have to get to the cloud. And I've talked with dozens of people here that said, I'm moving to the cloud and we ask why, we ask what they're doing. And they said, because we have to. And there's no, in a lot of cases, there's no real clear understanding of what's the value beyond things like cost efficiency, availability, those kinds of things. So, we'd like to talk to customers about saying, once you're there, focus on the business outcome. Why are you adopting a cloud infrastructure? What is that really going to do to drive a good, solid business outcome for you? And so, when you focus on, because at the end of the day, all technology in enterprises has to result in some sort of outcome for a business, right? It's there to serve a purpose. It's there to serve the business. And so, we really want to emphasize that with customers. And once you're there, you're not done, right? A lot of customers think, well, I'm in the cloud, I'm safe, I'm secure, I'm protected, things are geo-replicated. It's more complicated than that. It's more nuanced than that. And this is where we come in and we say, first, it's essential that you think about data protection and availability beyond architecting for high availability, but really have a data protection strategy to go along with that, because you'll hear us talk a lot about the always-on enterprise, right? Businesses, there's no allowance for downtime anymore. Imagine going to your phone and not having the app that you need, not having the dashboard that you need about where am I with my customers. You can't have that anymore. So what Veeam does is we say, great, let's work together, create a comprehensive data protection availability strategy based on what Veeam can provide because your business depends on it. Paul, it was interesting. Warner Vogel's keynote this morning, he went through a lot of this. He said, the way you used to think about things is very different, like security. Everybody should be thinking about security. Security is everybody's job, absolutely. And when you talk about availability, he went through this really rigorous, it's like it's not just one availability zone, it's multiple zones. Here's how you get to three nines, four nines. Walk us through a little bit of that journey. If somebody was building in their single data center, running virtualization versus, now we're going to the cloud. What does the cloud just do for me and where does Veeam come in and help complete some of those solutions that should be available and protected? Sure, so first of all, 81%, we did a recent survey, 81% of customers that we surveyed said we're going to use more than one cloud. Now I know that's a challenge and customers want to have to figure out how to have the right cloud infrastructure for the right workload. AWS is a phenomenal platform that provides an incredible number of services but customers may not be ready to make that move holistically. So what we talk about at Veeam is being able to provide data protection and availability for any data on any app on any cloud, whether that's a private cloud that you have on-prem, whether that's a managed cloud through a service provider, which we have 16,000 of those worldwide now, or whether that's a public cloud like AWS or even software as a service. That's another area of emphasis that we're drawing out with customers, thinking, well, I'm using Office 365, so I'm okay, not realizing that it's still their responsibility to provide data protection. And it's not about if Office 365 goes down, it's what if something gets deleted accidentally, maliciously, it's your responsibility to have that. And so that's why we have solutions to help with that. So that's the way, when we talk to customers, we think about looking across the span of, again, all in the context of what does your business need to do? Yeah, Paul, can you talk to us about what you're hearing from customers? Because, you know, but we say most companies have a cloud strategy today. 85% of companies say they have a cloud strategy. My discussion with customers, well, the ink's pretty dry, you know, pretty wet still on those, and it's changing.  Of course, Office 365, Salesforce, all the above, they have all of these pieces. One of the big things they're trying to do is get their arms around it and justify. You know, what are the prevailing strategies out there? What are some of the challenges they're facing that you're seeing? Yeah, so I think a couple of things. It's a great question, and it's interesting because we've been talking about the cloud for, I don't know, since 2006, 2007. And despite the fact that I believe that this adoption is happening at a greater pace than we've ever seen of any wave of technology in history, customers are still struggling with it because it is such a paradigm shift. Virtualization was a shift, but it was kind of easy for customers to get their heads around. You could see the benefits. Cloud is a much more complicated, longer-term endeavor. What we're hearing from customers is they need help figuring out what I was talking about earlier, what do I do where, right? If I can go all in in Amazon Web Services and build everything, fantastic, I'm going to go do that. We hear that a lot from customers, that they have a, you know, not just an idea, but a mandate to say, I've got to go do this. The things that they think through is, do I lift and shift applications? Do I rewrite from the ground up? Do I just say anything new now is going to be cloud native? And I'm going to slowly sunset other things in my IT portfolio over time. They're struggling with how to do that. There's an education issue there to get really super smart about how you do that. Security is an overwhelming concern, as you heard this morning. But I think in the last four years, three, four years, you've seen amazing improvements in security in public cloud infrastructures and with managed cloud service providers as well. It's become such a focus. There's robust capabilities now, and I believe that in many cases, public data, public clouds like AWS, managed service providers, they're more secure than maybe a typical enterprise data center is. One of the things I'm interested in is healthcare. That's been a historically slow vertical to move to cloud for obvious reasons. HIPAA in the US, a lot of retention, but there's a massive amount of potential that can benefit so many people, whether it's getting faster to diagnoses, being able to collaborate across university organizations or whatnot. But in terms of security and data protection and privacy and retention, what are you seeing in terms of maturation in healthcare? Are you seeing more of a readiness to start shifting certain workloads to cloud? Yeah, so I spent probably 19 years of my career in healthcare, both in the provider community and in pharmaceutical and life sciences development. And I think there's two things happening, Lisa, right now. There's, the capabilities have been improved dramatically to accommodate and meet HIPAA requirements, meet regulatory requirements over in EMEA and over APJ. And now there's more of a willingness to do this. I think we're starting to see a bit of a generational shift, if you will, in healthcare where there's an expectation that when I'm in the healthcare system, I'll have access to the same kind of information I have about my bank account, my checking, you know, my portfolio. And so there's a maturity in the IT assets and there's a willingness now to go do it. And I believe there is probably more than any other industry. This is that place where you can, the cloud can have a massive, massive impact. Like you saw in Werner's keynote this morning, bringing Alexa into the workplace. I think that's going to be a trend we're going to continue to see. AI voice enabled apps moving in healthcare. Imagine, you know, having a dashboard in front of a healthcare worker where they have all the access and they can use natural language queries to talk about a patient and get access and analysis to data in an instant. It's going to happen and I think it's going to happen faster now that we are where we are. Yeah, Paul, these modern applications are a big discussion at a show like this.  You mentioned, you know, IoT and AI and everything. How does data protection change for some of these kind of cloud native environments? Yeah, it gets trickier in cloud native. The trick there is figuring out what I need to protect when, right? I think we're seeing what we've had some conversations about is not backing up, you know, backing up the entire app, backing up all that, but backing up the configuration.  So it's more complicated. These large scale databases present some interesting challenges. We are working through some roadmap items now that I think will be pretty interesting and then not too just in future to help address this because I think it's still early days in terms of serverless and containerization, but we want to be on the front end of that because, again, you can't ignore the idea of data protection or availability just because you have a different development paradigm now. Paul, please go ahead, Lisa. I was going to say, beam availability for AWS. What are the differentiators? What are the benefits? Yeah, so, beam availability for AWS, we announced a little while ago. It's going to be coming out probably in early 2018. This is in the idea of when we talk about data protection and availability, our cloud strategy is predicated on three pillars. We talk about to the cloud, from the cloud, and within the cloud. So to the cloud is where everybody's sort of moving to now. That's following what we call the 3-2-1 rule, three copies of your data, two different media, one of which is stored somewhere else. Customers are now saying that should just all be in the cloud. I heard a quote from a customer that said, your capital budget for disaster recovery and backup should be zero. All of that stuff should be in the cloud and on an OPEX model. And then from the cloud is what I talked about earlier, Office 365 backing up SaaS applications. And then within the cloud is I want to be able to, I want to be able to back up everything inside of AWS. I don't want any on-prem infrastructure. I don't want anything. I want to be able to have my whole data protection strategy played out in the cloud infrastructure. What availability for AWS will provide is the ability to manage EC2 instances to provide beam availability for EC2 instances at a fine level of granularity. And that can be either within EC2, within AWS itself, or if we have actually a surprising number of customers said, I'd like to bring that out of the data center. Now, it remains to be seen if that's a thing that takes, has a great deal of acceleration and growth, but we're going to allow customer flexibility. If a customer wants to do that, fantastic. If they want to manage it all within AWS, fantastic. We're going to let them do that. Paul, the VMware on AWS solution, something that gets talked to a lot of that show, seems like something that'd be a natural fit for a beam to get involved in. Can you bring us a feed on that? And are there any other announcements this week that are relevant to kind of your ecosystem? Yeah, so no other announcements from us right now. The things that we're talking about in the booth while we're here, one of which is beam backup and replication for VMC on AWS. We think that that- That's not a mouthful or anything, right? There's a lot of Vs in there. We think that that could be a game changer. We really do. I think that was a very good strategic move by both VMware and AWS to allow customers to do this. And so we are, we're excited coming out in version 9.5 update three, which I believe is going to go GA here in the next couple of days. Customers will be able to use their Veeam infrastructure to provide data protection for those VMware environments on AWS just as they would anywhere else in their data center. Sounds like you're getting a lot of demand from customers. Are they excited for that? I've heard pricing sometimes a concern. What are you hearing from customers about that solution? I think customers are still trying to figure out sizing. I think there's still some things to come in terms of how that's going to roll out over time. I know VMware has promised to make quarterly updates. I know they've delivered some things this week. We have a fantastic relationship with VMware. We've been partners for over a dozen years now and we will continue to engineer our solution and our solution with them together so that we can provide the optimal performance for customers. We do think there's going to be a lot of demand for it. We think it could be big. Well, we know how fast AWS is growing. We know that Veeam is adding 4,000 customers a month. You guys are approaching the $1 billion mark in revenue and accelerating very quickly. So Paul, thanks again for joining us on theCUBE. We appreciate your insight. Thank you so much. It was great being here. Excellent. And for my co-host, Stu Miniman, I'm Lisa Martin. You are watching theCUBE live from AWS ReInvent 2017. In Las Vegas, stick around. We'll be right back.


Nice collection eh? We got our share and more. More than we thought we'd get when we joined the 43rd early in 1941. What does it take to get a purple heart? General Washington said it takes valor. Our ancestors showed plenty of valor in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, in World War I. Only they weren't called the 43rd then. There were only a few regiments of civilian soldiers, volunteers of the new England National Guard from Maine, Vermont, Connecticut and Rhode Island, the 103rd Infantry, the 169th Infantry, and the 172nd Infantry. Some of them with history dating back more than 100 years. That was long before they called us the Wing Victory Division. Let's be frank, back in 1941 it didn't look like much of a victory and we didn't look much like the division which was later called one of the finest commands in the Pacific. We used rubber balloons for guns and learned to paint the words machine gun instead of knocking one out. And speaking of Wing Victory, we didn't feel as if we had wings. Our feet hurt too much from marching, running, jumping, climbing. First in Camp Blanding, Florida, then in Camp Shelby, Mississippi. General Hester, who was the boss of our outfit then, wasn't too happy about it. But when we left the states in October 1942, they gave us plenty of everything. Remember the phrase arsenal of democracy? We must have half emptied it. Of course, we felt sort of strange when we moved through the Golden Gate.  There was also a feeling of excitement. The combat team was on the elevated President Coolidge which was sunk at Espirito Santo in the Hebrides while the rest of us were kept as strategic reserve in New Caledonia as a sort of welcoming committee for the Japs should they decide to pay us a visit. Strategic reserve, my eye, was just another word for training for crawling in the dirt. And brother, we practically ate that dirt. We were getting tough and ready. When the Japs sent word they were too busy to keep our date we moved up from New Caledonia. In February 1943 on the way to Guadalcanal we started our collection of medals. Japs sent us greetings by plane and torpedo but by and large it was only a mopping up operation putting the finishing touches on a good job started by the Marines. First medals for valor and wounds. Next we invaded the Russell Islands in 1943. It wasn't much of an invasion but it was worth the experience. It was a good rehearsal for our next job. Organized as a task force under General Hester we were supposed to land on Rendova Island together with elements of the Navy and Marine Corps.  Establishing a beachhead.  By Navy support we consolidated our position on Rendova Island and sat down for a few minutes to have some chow. Then the order came to move across the channel to Munda Airfield. Maybe I feel a little bitter about Munda Airfield but 31 days we bled for every inch we advanced moving through rain and mud fighting against heavily fortified and camouflaged positions. As Munda Airfield brings back some bitter memories we got quite a number of medals for valor and wounds. Munda was ours, repaired and enlarged as a base for our planes. And so was Rendova Island. After 50 more days of sweat and blood they took us to New Zealand to forget all about it but had a chance to relax a little in those days. Darned well it wouldn't last long when replacement started coming. It meant we were getting ready for a new mission. A red wing was now our boss. A tough soldier graduated from the Doe Flits. He was the one who gave us that name, the Winged Victory Division.  We sure did that name proud when we landed at Itapi in July 1944. The landing itself was easy. There were some fireworks after we landed, plenty of fireworks. There were 80,000 Japs and only 20,000 of us. But our equipment was good and so was our morale. The Japs must have thought we were crazy but we kept going. They attacked us across the Drinamore. That's the name of a river. You had to be quite a linguist to tell where your buddy fell. Our Japanese friends learned in a hurry to understand the language of our guns. We smoked them out of their holes like rats. And we kept going, sort of a constitutionally, you might say, with a shower every day and a beauty nap after lunch, mud pack and all. Things sort of eased up when Christmas came around or so we thought. It was the third Christmas we had spent away from home. The third Christmas for many of us the last. Two years eve we were on our way to the Philippines as part of the invasion force. Yes, we made a number of New Year's resolutions. Number one was we were going to land on Lengayan Gulf Luzon. It was the kind of a campaign that sticks in your memory, the kind you keep dreaming about long after it's over. Some dreams. We'll never forget those kamikazis. Those troops landed on the morning of January 9th with orders to seize the left flank. In order to block off the Japanese in the mountains of Baguio, we had to slug it out inch by inch over mountains, rivers, swamps, jungles, and carried us south to Fort Stotzenberg, which we helped liberate. But we didn't have time to stay for the ceremony for we were doing our share at Clark Field and the rugged mountains that flanked the field on the north. The boys who keep the records will tell you we killed more Japs than all the other divisions that fought on Luzon. Everybody tell you we were the only ones who did the fighting. We would have been lost in the Sambales Mountains without the guerrillas and the native scout troops. Getting desperate, but nobody could stop us now. We moved south and tackled the famous Shimbu line at Antipola east of Manila, sweeping to a junction with the first cavalry division southeast of Laguna Dubai. Then to Ipodam, which was the main source of Manila's water supply. We blasted the Shinsu Fortress and secured Ipodam intact. We yanked out for a rest, but our biggest job lay yet ahead, the invasion of the Japanese homeland. However, before we could get going again, a little gadget called the atom bomb brought peace. We put in a stretch as occupation troops in Japan, back at swinging a stick instead of a bayonet. Finally, we started on our voyage home, back through the Golden Gate, three years older, years wiser, minus many of our buddies, plus a lot of medals. The voices that cheered us in San Francisco were the voices of America, the America we had fought for in four campaigns that won us two congressional medals of honor, one distinguished service medal, 75 distinguished service crosses, and a collection of silver stars and purple hearts. We were a happy bunch of soldiers who we had done our job in the bloodiest war of history, and we had done it well, once again a part of the National Guard. Citizen Soldiers, ready to serve our country whenever we are needed, whenever we are called.


At this time of year, we often stop and reflect on the year that has been.  I too know that we will all come together in the new year to continue the great work of the CFA. From my family to yours, I just wanted to take this time to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year, but more importantly, as you come together with your family and your friends, enjoy this time. It's been a tough year. Stay safe and I look forward to meeting you all again in 2021.


Thank you.  We have devastated Australia and England. Well, I'm afraid England have played terribly in the World Cup. We were the champions, but no longer. India, you know, I think you will be the next champion. So congratulations. The floor now is yours. Seven minutes. Maybe a couple of minutes more, if you don't mind. Okay, thank you. I think it's left for this opportunity to present an Indian perspective on Indo-Pacific security concerns. I apologize at the beginning for being a mere practitioner of security, rather than being an expert like the other members of this panel. But I do hope you will still give me a worthwhile listening. I begin by making a controversial statement that notwithstanding the conflict in Ukraine and the war in Gaza, the Indo-Pacific, I believe, is the pivotal theater of interstate contestation. And it is important that we realize and recognize the fact. Listening to the debate, the previous debate, one got the impression that the war between Ukraine and Russia is a centerpiece of world history. I dare say that it's important. It's critical. All nations are important. But I think it's important for us to recognize that the Indo-Pacific has to be maintained in a manner that this area does not become a part of China's back borders. Because China is the emerging power in the region and is able to do a great deal, notwithstanding some temporary hiccups that they're facing today. I would begin by saying that there's another controversial statement. I mean, with apologies to the Japanese. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a statement regarding the quadrilateral of the Indian parliament in November 2007. And I think it caught on. It was held on. I feel proud that I was present on that occasion. So with your permission, may I set the record straight about that? But more to the point, I think there's a great deal of controversy that surrounds what is India's role in what is India's degree of support to the Indo-Pacific. When you see India's partnership in the quadrilateral security dialogue, which goes by the acronym QUAD, as indicative of India's willingness to be part of a military pact to contain and checkmate China. It definitely as far as the Pacific is concerned. I do think that this would be reading too much into India's intentions. India has joined the quad, but I think its intention is not that it would be a dedicated partner in a military confrontation with China. A dedicated partner along with the US, the United Kingdom, Australia, France and Japan in a military confrontation with China. I think it's important to stress this point at the very outset that there is any misreading of where India stands. I know that many non-nation countries find it difficult to comprehend India's stance. Or its unwillingness to be part of any anti-China military and defence pact. I do say this because, as I was explaining a little while ago to John, I've been around for a very long time. And the history of Sino-Indian tensions and conflicts has a long one. But nevertheless, while we have occasionally shooting wars, I would regard them as skirmishes. Both countries believe that their war or conflict is civilizational rather than territorial. We have an undeniable border and therefore there are skirmishes. But I think that we don't have any major conflict, etc. There's this struggle for influence rather than a struggle for territory. I think that's important and people don't understand why are we not part of the quad or why if Aukus is willing to include us, why are you not part of Aukus? Because there is this basic issue. I know this is changing to some extent because China had confined itself basically to the Pacific and India basically to the Indian Ocean. India's interests were always in the Indian Ocean area and the Indian Ocean little while as China was in the Pacific. Lately, China has started intruding into the Indian Ocean but it has not yet altered India's perspective. Whether India would change that perspective in the days to come, I cannot say. But at the moment, I think it's important to set the record straight that India does not believe in a military confrontation with China on the seas as of now. Yet I agree that there are many, many, what should I say, and differing interpretations on how we should achieve the objective of containing China to some extent and not allow it to run riot if I might say so in the Indo-Pacific. But I temper all that by one particular reason, saying that there is a tendency of, you know, when you talk of China, to talk of extreme competition with China, I mean this or not, this or nothing sort of thing. I think that is something for which I think India certainly, but I'm aware that many Asian nations do not quite believe that this is the answer to how we should go about dealing with China. As I said, India needs a strategy to contain China along with other Asian nations, but we do not see that the only way to achieve this is through an anti-China military pact. There's a lot of debate, but there's a great deal of sober realisation as well that a war could have disastrous consequences, both for China and India. China will not provoke a war with India because its target of 2049 becoming the world's number one power will go up in smoke. India cannot also afford a war with China because we've just heard how the rest of the world, I mean, if Samsung is coming to India, we have the world's granary today, etc., all that will also go up in smoke if we have a conflict with China. So both China and India have reserves of strength and also reserves of belief as to what we need to do. So India is now strengthening its relationship with many of the Asian countries, particularly those who are part of the Indian Ocean, but more so with Vietnam, Indonesia and Japan for instance. Japan and India have now ties of friendship which are almost like a military relationship, but short of being called a military pact. So I think that we will collaborate with the United States. We will avoid a military sort of a pact with the United States or with other countries on that or with the other countries of the West, but we will be in that sense anti-China. But if you are expecting that India will join forces to wage a war against China, I think we should be careful. Give me a few more minutes, I want to spend the order. In this context, I would say, and given the state of disorder that exists in the world of India, I mean, in the discussions that are taking place in India, I am not part of the mainstream today, but I still have reasons, I mean, ways and means of knowing what's going on, that many Asian countries are not very comfortable with the idea, concept of, if I might say it was in quotes, righteousness. I mean, which is becoming part of, I would say, the foreign policy particularly of the United States, which involves a mixture of strong moral feelings coupled with great power. We are doing the right thing. We need to go to the kind of stuff. I don't think that has been the history of international relations the world over. We believe, therefore, that it would be a mistake, not only for us but also for the viewers in the West to think that they can extract concessions from China by using military pressure tactics. We live in close proximity to China and we are well aware of China's perfidious designs. China wants to be, first, the number one power in Asia and that's the only country that can withstand, or whether it's standing between that and is India, so they will try to belittle or sort of reduce India's layer of influence. But we see in China not as a dangerous adversary so much as an imminent threat to which we have to face. The presumption of permanent hostility or adherence to a belief that China must be confronted forcefully on every issue is something that we find it difficult to adjust to. I would like to end by, sorry, yesterday I was struck by the forcefulness with the ethi liong spoke about Taiwan. I know that Taiwan is, like Bangkok's ghost, all the time we keep talking about Taiwan. Taiwan is a problem, there's no mistaking the fact that it's a problem, but there is no immediate solution to Taiwan. I think we need to recognize and I think this problem we can discuss it. I believe, and I think when I say I am not only mine but amongst the discussions we have in the security community in India, time is perhaps the best option to arrive at a formula which means maintaining the status quo for some more years. Any attempt to change the status quo through force would not only upset the global equity agreement and could have, it would have disastrous consequences of the world. Our understanding is that China can live with the present position with equanimity for quite some more time. And I would like to say please listen, we can debate it later on in this. Finally, this might be a very personal, again one more, I'm used to controversy. I've lived by my wits most of the time. I'd say that Asia, especially East Asia, needs to avoid the kind of situation that exists in Europe today where Russia has a paranoid feeling of danger and of a threat from Europe and the US while the West sees Russia as a threat that needs to be eliminated. You know, two sets of people in major conflict. Dealing with China is going to be very complicated but I think patience is important. We need to avoid the threat of a war on Taiwan and we should be careful as to how go about it. Finding desirable means to achieve a modest way of ending Taiwan is perhaps the best way to foster stability in the region. Sorry if I sound too controversial. Thank you very much.


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