Today we have some more information about Nintendo Switch to some reconformations of some stuff that we've already heard, but now maybe you're hearing it in a more concrete light. Oh, and by the way, yeah, we already know what the big Nintendo Switch launch game is going to be. We don't have to speculate, we don't have to guess. We were just straight up told. This is pretty cool stuff. Now remember, if you're hearing this for the first time from me, I will probably be like third hand information for you of course. We will have all these sources linked down in the description like we always do, you know, for the people out there that think I just make this stuff up. Hey, I always put my sources down in the description. That being said, we gotta dump right into this after I remind you guys that hey, we're on our road to 150,000 subscribers. So, you know what? If you're enjoying this content, why not go ahead and ringling the dingling and hit the bell icon and subscribe to the channel. That'd be really swell. But let's get into this report that we have over at goNintendo.com. Now, I wanna note of course that Go Nintendo here is not the source on this stuff, but they will be linked as well. They just have a really nice summary. So it says the Switch successor rumors continue with talks of storage, screen size, and 3D Mario. Time for the next round of Switch successor rumors gang. Once again, please remember that none of this information is confirmed at this point. The only thing we know for sure is that Nintendo is indeed working on a hardware that will supplant the Switch. Yes, Nintendo technically said that back in 2021. Now, the where, when, how, what are all speculation at this point? Now, with that out of the way, the latest details on the supposed Switch successor come from insiders, Nathan Hate and Andy Robinson from Video Game Chronicle. And they pertain to some tech specs, software and more. Here's a roundup of the information that was shared. The device will have an eight inch LCD screen. The device will have 512 gigabytes of internal storage. Remember, when we talked about this before, it was up to. We'll get to why it sounds like this might be more concrete in a moment. A late 2024 launch is expected somewhere around September or October. The device is supposedly launching with a 3D Mario, which by the way, is backed up by three to four sources. The device will use a new cartridge format. And as you see, Nathan Hate, VGC and a little bit of a reset era goodness. Now, one thing I do want to note here over at the reset era breakdown is there's this really, really interesting look at this right here, the screen size comparison. So this green area is the 6.2 inch original Switch. And this would be the eight inch, which of course looks monstrous compared to that. But actually here's a nice little overlay of a current switch. Like, you know, here's what the screen size was. Here's what it could be. And as you see, it would probably require a bigger switch. But if it's a more bezel-less design, eight inches is right about keeping a very similar form factor of the current switch OLED. And remember the switch OLED is technically a smidge bigger. And so I feel like this would probably be a smidge bigger than a switch OLED. But yeah, that's a really good look at the screen size comparison to the OG Switch and what the eight inch one would be. Just kind of putting that out there so you guys can see it. Now, my thing that I really want to focus on is why are we definitive about some of this stuff? Well, the eight inch screen, that we all heard on the Eat The Hate podcast, Andy Robinson's corroborating that. He's saying, yeah, eight inches. That's exactly what all my sources said. And by the way, Andy Robinson this whole time has now confirmed all his sources are developers with actual dev kits and several of them. He's got like four, five, six different sources on all of this stuff. And they're all saying eight inch LCD. That's what it's going to be. Cool. Now, again, LCD doesn't mean it can't end up being OLED down the line. We don't know, but anyways, this is just what the dev kits are at the moment. And he went on to say 512 gigabytes. Yeah.  Yup, that's exactly what all of my people tell me too.  This is what's in their dev kits. Now, of course, dev kits tend to be over spec'd compared to final release. So it might not be 512, but that's what it is at the moment. And obviously the biggest part in all of this is the launch game. The 3D Mario. It should come as no surprise that 3D Mario is going to be a launch game. Look, they can't be Zelda because Zelda just came out and they're not gonna have another one of those ready to go like they did at launch of the Nintendo Switch. And look, they like to have a massive game at launch. And if they do a September release, what's really cool is they could do a Mario game. You see Mario Odyssey behind me. Mario Odyssey is sold like 26, almost 27 million copies. 3D Mario is a big deal to have at launch. And it really hits on the hardcore fan base. So I really do think that this is not only what I always thought would be a launch game. We now have some confirmation that this is indeed going to end up being the launch title. And what's really cool about that is if there's also a Pokemon game next winter, and this launches in September, in theory you could have 3D Mario and Pokemon within like the first three months of launch, which would just be massive. Now, Pokemon's likely to be a cross generation title so it might not be as big of a deal for the new system as 3D Mario will be in terms of moving units, but there's gonna be other games that are coming out along the line. A lot of people are starting to suspect Metroid Prime 4 could possibly be a cross gen title, but there's going to be exclusives. And I think the way Nintendo's lining this up will be look at the games they have coming out. A lot of their bigger IPs are just like not doing anything. I'll give you an example. Kirby and the Forgot Land came out, right? Where's our brand new Kirby game since then? Probably gonna end up on the new system. So we just have to take all of this into consideration when we're talking about the Nintendo Switch 2 is that Nintendo's got a plan and that plan is going to be executed pretty well. Now, there's been a lot of debate of course online about backwards compatibility and I will note it wasn't in this report, but Andy Robinson on his podcast that he was on did say that he has one source that has told him there will not be backwards compatibility. And the way he phrased it is, this person with a dev kit was told that there won't be backwards compatibility. But then he went on to note, by the way, I have three to four other developers telling me there is backwards compatibility. And that's why we're kind of in this conundrum of will there or won't there be backwards compatibility? Now what was interesting is he also elaborated on the third party developers being worried about backwards compatibility and he basically said, yeah, a bunch of third party developers don't want backwards compatibility and they told Nintendo they don't want it because they're seeing a really poor software attach rate with the PlayStation 5. And I do find that to be a very curious thing to talk about. I think the bigger issue for PlayStation 5 isn't backwards compatibility, it's more cross generation releases. Let me put it this way. If you make a game, let's say Call of Duty, right? And you release Call of Duty on PlayStation 4 and Call of Duty on PlayStation 5. Yeah, the PlayStation 5 version's better, but there's that PlayStation 4 version. And you don't have a PS5 yet and you bought that brand new Call of Duty game and then let's say two months later you upgrade to a PlayStation 5. Because there's backwards compatibility, you're just gonna play the current Call of Duty you have, right? You're highly likely not going to buy a new version of a game you already own. So that would be the argument to hurt sales. But if you want to increase the attach rate, stop making your games cross generation in the first place. Just make that Call of Duty exclusive to the new generation platforms. And now people will have to buy it on that platform. In fact, they will have to buy the platform to buy the game. So you end up helping each other. You will increase the attach rate and also increase the sales of the system. And this is one reason why even if the system does have backwards compatibility backwards compatibility has been in literally video game consoles for decades. This is not a new concept and there was never complaints about it hurting before but we didn't always have cross-generational games, right? Like, oh, we having backwards compatibility to the GameCube wasn't gonna hurt Wii game sales because Wii games were not coming to the GameCube. See, that's the thing. And I feel like when we speculate that maybe Nintendo is gonna have a year of doing cross-generation games, I just don't really see that. I think around launch, there will be some. I think a new Pokemon game will probably end up being cross-gen because the Pokemon company is really sticklers about that. They don't wanna get off the biggest hardware until the new hardware has a bigger install base. So I think that'll be cross-gen. I think a potential Metroid Prime 4 might move to cross-gen and we might see maybe one other title. But for the most part, I think that that's gonna be exclusive. They're gonna come out the gate, just like with the Switch and they're gonna hit you with a new game every month or every other month that's 100% exclusive to the system because one thing Nintendo has that other companies don't necessarily have are evergreen titles. All the titles from 2017, sans like Splatoon 2 because it got replaced with Splatoon 3 are still selling units today at full price MSRP. So Nintendo doesn't have to worry that, no, they're not gonna have a 10 million launch like they did for Tears of the Kingdom at the launch of the new system because they know it's gonna continue to sell over time. All they have to ensure is that the platform keeps growing, that people keep buying it. And the best way is exclusive games. And I don't know that Nintendo is gonna go away from this. Well, third parties might go cross-gen for a bit. That's on them. I would argue that for the most part, I don't think we're gonna see a lot of cross-gen. And this is just a classic sign to me. If third party developers are going to Nintendo saying, hey, we don't want backwards compatibility, Nintendo isn't dumb. They could probably look at that broader landscape of PS5 and realize, you know what? If your games were not on PS4 in the first place, you'd have a better attach rate, wouldn't you? So I don't know. And Nintendo knows, of course, what they're doing.  I don't think they're gonna let us know this year. I think we're gonna find out about this early next year. But I am so excited to finally have tangible things to talk about with Nintendo Switch 2. Now, speaking of that, I do wanna address a little bit of the criticism I see in the comments when I make Nintendo Switch 2 videos. Heck, we had criticism just yesterday on a video that was a general news video that wasn't even about Nintendo Switch 2. Kinda weird. I wanna address this criticism because of something I said. I stated last weekend on Sunday that I was getting a little tired of talking about Nintendo Switch 2. Well, today we gotta talk about Nintendo Switch 2 again, and I'm gonna be quite frank with you guys. This isn't a topic that I enjoy talking about this much. A few moments later. I gotta be honest. I started this video by saying I'm sort of tired of talking about this damn thing because it's getting old. More moments later. I don't know that I'm going to talk that much about Switch 2, barring some major report coming out from Bloomberg or Jeff Grob or someone like super reliable and in the know moving forward, barring some major report coming out from Bloomberg or Jeff Grob or someone like super reliable and in the know moving forward. Now, why was I getting tired of talking about Nintendo Switch 2? Because we seem to be going in circles without new information. So we would talk about it every time a new source would come out of the woodworks of, oh, the system might be unveiled here. Oh, the system might be unveiled there. Oh, they're negotiating earlier this year, one of the reports is, oh, they're negotiating when they're gonna end up going to the mass production. They could go into mass production as soon as this summer. Oh, now they might not go into mass production until early next year. And we had these sort of outside reports that didn't really give us any real details about what the system was. Just more of a, hey, it's going to come out. Hey, they're gonna be mass produced. And we were just running in circles and it got really boring to be honest, continuing to just report on all those little tidbits out there, even though I do want to give you guys on the latest information and latest sources on this system.  If you watch the whole video towards the end, I mentioned we're not going to talk about Nintendo Switch to, again, until, until there is tangible, real sources from legit outlets doing it. I didn't know in less than 24 hours that article from Video Game Chronicle and Andy Robinson was going to happen. I was not in the know on that. So it became sort of a bit of a ironic statement to say I'm done until something big happens and then something big happened from legit sources and it's been happening all week. Andy Robinson adding more information out there now.  So there's gonna probably be more from him later this year and more from this development. Now that the dev kits are out there, there's gonna be even more information coming down the line. So the way I look at it is, yeah, we lucked into, I will say, legit or I guess I shouldn't say legit because this is technically all unconfirmed, but we lucked into legitimate sources. We can say that on information and it just ironically happened around the time that I was saying I was a little bored of talking about it. But guess what? I'm not bored of it now. This is exactly what I needed. I needed real tangible things to talk about. I can now talk about 3D Mario and what it might be. Is it gonna be an Odyssey 2 or what kind of crazy stuff is it going to be? I can now talk about how they're gonna use that 3D Mario and spin it into other games and during its first launch year. We can now talk about more exact information on launch timing in terms of second half of 2024. We can now talk about the internal storage. We can talk about the screen technology. Like we now have tangible details that while unconfirmed and will stay unconfirmed until it's officially announced are out there. And I love that and that's what I wanted guys. I was just tired of going in circles and I'm sure you guys were tired of going in circles too. Now, if you're tired of the reports this week, you're tired of these videos this week, you don't have to click on them just to be honest. But I gotta say, you can't say it's not news. It's not news. Before this week we didn't know from multiple sources that 3D Mario was gonna be a launch game. We didn't know about LCD versus OLED. We didn't know about the eight inch screen. We didn't know about the possibility of 512 gigabytes of internal storage. This is actual tangible rumors from legit sources that we can now talk about. So if you hate Switch 2 content, sorry to break it to you. We're gonna have a lot of it. We're gonna have a lot of Switch 2 content. Once the Mario Wonder news starts picking up, we have a lot of Mario Wonder and Mario RPG news. We're going to be having tons of news from a Nintendo Direct like the happening next month. We got a Pokemon Presents we're gonna be covering. Look, we have a lot of stuff we're gonna cover, but yeah, you're gonna see a lot of Switch 2 videos. Maybe even daily for a while. It is what it is. I can't help it. I'm a technology enthusiast and I'm ready for the next one of these, man. I'm so ready and now we have some tangible stuff to talk about and we're only gonna get more. As Andy Robinson put on his own podcast over at Video Game Chronicles, he noted quite clearly the biggest reason he put this information out now wasn't to be first, but to encourage other people in this industry, in the video game media to start unveiling the information they have. He just wanted the floodgates to open because maybe like me, he was tired of those little tinge fringe rumors out there about manufacturing. He's like, look, we have real information. Why don't we just give it to people? Give the people what they want. So we're gonna get more and more. Eurogamer already backed up the release timing, at least from his articles. So we already have another outlet talking about it a little bit. I fully expect Digital Foundry is gonna put information out there. Remember, Digital Foundry is the one that told us about the Switch Pro dev units being recalled and obviously that whole project being canceled. So we are living in an era right now where Switch 2 floodgates are opening. Reality is we're gonna be transitioning at some point next year. And hey, until then, let's enjoy our tears of the kingdom. Let's enjoy our Mario wonders. Let's enjoy that new Peach game and the Luigi Mansion port coming and Mario RPG. We still have plenty of games coming up for this system to enjoy. The current system, that is. But it's fun to be excited for what's next, guys. My channel really wasn't existing in the lead up to the Nintendo Switch. I've never actually been a YouTuber in the lead up to the launch of a new platform from Nintendo and we're gonna handle this the way that we handle the lead up to anything. We're gonna talk and talk and talk and report and get excited with all of you. Thank you for being here and I'll catch you in the next video.


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Good morning, I Love how in the Navy when I say good morning everybody says it back like we did in kindergarten Totally awesome Thank you very much for that kind introduction. It's really an honor for me to be here today Before we get started I'd like to pause to reflect on the terrible tragedy this weekend in Orlando My heart goes out to the victims and the families Yesterday secretary Mabas said no act of terror can change Who we are the values that make us Americans? And I think that's an important reminder as we contemplate the theme of this conference today So with that in mind It's an honor to be here. It's great to see some old friends Andy Krepenevich one of my mentors you're all are gonna be very honored very lucky to hear him speak today I'm sure he's gonna have all the answers for you, and then you won't have to have the rest of the conference That's usually how it works It's great to take a look at this the theme of the conference today strategy and complex and uncertain times The strategic environment is indeed complex and uncertain We need clear strategic thinking about the critical and enduring Role the United States Navy and Marine Corps play in support of American leadership in the world So I want to take this opportunity today to propose a fairly practical Policymaker approach to strategy to share with you how I think about strategy and its limitations I'll tell you how strategy informs my work every single day in the Pentagon and how I hope the work that each of you Are doing can help shape the future So my job is under secretary of the Navy is to help translate the president's vision into something concrete That is to organize train and equip our Navy and Marine Corps to align with our nation's strategic objectives Now this requires vision because as the theme of this conference rightly points out the future is always uncertain Our strategic guidance from the president's national security strategy to the secretary of defense and the chairman's defense and military Strategies collectively provide a framework for how to approach this task But ultimately it's up to the secretary of the Navy and his team of advisors including myself and the CNO and the Commandant To determine what force structure design is best This process is further complicated by the fact that the Pentagon's force development processes are complex expensive and very slow Most of the ships planes and sexy new technologies that we're dreaming about and building today will not actually be in the hands of our Sailors and Marines for another one or two decades We tend to keep our ships and submarines and aircraft up to five decades Which drives the need for modernization in stride My point here is that modernizing a force while also procuring the next generation of capabilities is slow and Expensive yet it is vital to introducing the state-of-the-art technologies Many of our ships and planes fighting our current fights even the ones that I flew Were designed and built in the 60s 70s 80s and 90s The debates over these systems their munitions and their con ops began even earlier and were informed by lessons from the past classic theorists and even science fiction The strategies doctrines and concepts of operations had been dreamed up Lessons had been learned or as we discovered sometimes unlearned by people like us Like you and me in places like this The littoral combat ship the Virginia class submarine fifth generation fighters the Ford class carriers We're all designed after the fall of the Soviet Union When we assume the world's oceans were free and open to American maritime power as much as we try to predict the future our Platforms are still often a reflection of the times in which they're designed in this case We emphasized power projection capabilities over the need for sea control and contested waters So today as we think about our day-to-day work mine and yours I want us to remember we're not building a Navy just or Navy and Marine Corps for ourselves We're building it for the next generation for our children and probably for our grandchildren We must continually assess if we have the right balance in our concepts and in our fleet and future designs So how do we begin? We begin with strategy And I know we academics and policymakers like to talk about strategy, especially grand strategy linking ways and means to well articulated ends is a very tidy construct But alas grand strategy of the sort. We'd like to teach has nearly always been a frustrating and elusive endeavor This is certainly more true today than in the Cold War, but let's not fool ourselves Even then when the Soviet Union and the terrifying threat of nuclear annihilation American grand strategy and the role of America's of America in the world was still hotly debated So today like before there is not total agreement on the exact ends ways and means of American strategy or even on America's role in the world So let me offer my perspective into this debate I'll tell you how I managed to cope with this perennial uncertainty and debate Let me give you some of my ideas on where and how to place some thoughtful Bets today to help shape and secure the future that we want First putting strategy to work as I think through the type of Navy and Marine Corps we need in the future I think about what we want that future to look like and at a minimum I think about what we are trying to preserve our security our values our very way of life Although day-to-day most people can't feel it or touch it It turns out that maintaining these things from Wall Street to Main Street Requires a stable and cooperative global order And we have had such an international system one based on our values and the rule of law and free trade for over 70 years It may not be perfect But in light of the very bloody history of the world it ain't too bad Now maintaining the status quo may not sound like a very sexy end state For a grand strategy But consider the nature of the current global order and how that system benefits the United States and indeed the entire planet How eggs and how existentially at risk it currently is The current rules-based global order is often taken for granted as though it is a natural set point for global affairs But in fact in so many ways it is a most unnatural historical anomaly The post-World War two system of international order which includes things like the World Trade Organization the IMF the World Bank the United Nations Began with the massive reconstruction of Europe and Japan and has been characterized by over 70 years of economic growth and development Literally billions of human beings have been lifted out of poverty and desperation as a result of this system And I do not think it's an overstatement This massive reconstruction growth and development could only have been possible without could not have been possible Without the kinds we've got the kinds of catastrophic wars fought in the first half of the 20th century Wars this system was designed to prevent So just because that's sort of a counterfactual observation it does not make it any less true When you travel abroad or live overseas, you know it you feel it in your bones The thing is that this system and the stability it provided was not an accident It was carefully crafted and actively managed by the United States of America along with its partners and allies we did it with vision and through shrewd day-to-day diplomacy and Importantly especially for this forum with the relative peace and security guaranteed by the United States military America's military has underwritten this unprecedented era by sustaining its lethal technological edge and as Secretary Mabus points out by being there From the full to gap in Europe to the sea lanes around the world the lethality and the global presence of the American military has been indispensable This epitomizes the wise observation of a former assistant secretary of the Navy and president Teddy Roosevelt When he said a good Navy is not a provocation to war It is the surest guarantee of peace So I drag you through this short history or IR lesson as a reminder that we cannot take peace and world order for granted The system is only as strong as our willingness to manage it and in the unique case of the United States to lead If we see it as a natural set point and take our guard down It could crumble Our values in the rule of law human rights free trade which are the foundation of our way of life Define this global order and are the fruits of global stability So today this system is under threat and indeed active attack It is threatened by transnational challenges like climate change refugees migration piracy economic shocks global pandemics and violent extremism all of which require cooperative international strategies to address Yet no one nation not even the United States can solve problems like these by flying solo But even though the United States cannot solve all these global challenges and uphold a global order on its own We retain a unique and preeminent leadership role The fact is when we lead others follow and when we fail to leave people don't often act So while the system is being threatened from below and within by these transnational challenges It is also under active attack by a couple nation states that probably understand the system's weaknesses And the degree to which it is dependent on the United States may be a little bit better than we do Rising China and a revanchist Russia as well as Iran and North Korea are challenging this order from many angles Iran and North Korea present the horrifying threat of nuclear proliferation While China and Russia have found ways to take and hold territory and strategies short using strategies short of classical military invasions Using little green men and Crimea and dredges in the South China Sea These two nation states are cleverly operating just short of what our international system calls war and little by little they're trying to redraw the maps and rewrite the rules So at the operational level Russia is now able to operate more aggressively from its bases in Crimea in Kaliningrad Thus militarizing the Baltic and the Black Seas and China is militarizing the South China Sea with new bases and artificial islands Climate change has given Russia a similar opportunity in the Arctic where they are also building out bases setting up SAM sites and staking claims At the strategic level whether deliberately or accidentally this behavior challenges the international system It raises questions about the capability and resolve of NATO and about the validity of America's security guarantee the very guarantee that has underwritten the global stability since World War two and This is what makes such behavior so dangerous So to stop the destruction of this order We must attempt to convince these various actors these rivals that this international system can and does Benefit them and that it is worth preserving and protecting but At the same time we must also remain vigilant and Prepared to counter their potentially destructive impulses and designs should they fail to be persuaded and This is our task and the United States Navy and Marine Corps are indispensable in meeting this challenge For it is the world's oceans that connect the global community and are the lifelines for commerce and communication 80% of the Earth's population lives within an hour's drive of the ocean and 90% of the global trade is seaborne 95% of voice and data are carried by undersea cables so we must protect these assets and defend this rules-based order 24 hours a day 365 days a year on any ocean in any Latoral from the seabed to space across cyberspace as well as on land where all the people live For these reasons more than any time in our history the world needs the Navy and Marine Corps So with this as the strategic backdrop, let me turn to what this means for the Department of the Navy today How do we ensure this future is secure? Navy and Marine Corps leaders and theorists need to focus on the operational and tactical levels in support of our strategic objectives We need innovative thinking on how to link creative new concepts and operations with emerging technologies and We need to do all this much more cheaply and quickly This is our challenge Fortunately innovation is a key strand in the DNA of the US Navy and Marine Corps Both are used to adapting new technology as well as creating new tactics and operational art consider such groundbreaking new tech groundbreaking new advancements as the switch from sail to sea power to steam power Meaning naval tactics were no longer driven by the prevailing winds Or the rise of carrier aviation in World War two which supplanted the battleship as the premier strike platform It allowed the Navy to strike targets hundreds of miles away an operational concept that won the war in the Pacific The ship from guns to precision guided munitions enabled our ships and submarines to accurately engage shore targets up to a Thousand miles away without sending manned aircraft into harm's way The Navy and Marine Corps have evolved beyond sea control and seizing advanced bases to project projecting power far and lend to influence events there In each of these cases the Navy and Marine Corps leveraged new technologies in novel ways to irrevocably alter how the Navy force fights So what are the next new concepts technologies or combinations of both that will make the difference in the future? So let me start with concepts Having been commissioned in the 80s I am a product of the post-goldwater Nichols era and as a strategist an operator an academic Policymaker my thinking begins with a joint lens So from my past vantage points as an Air Force officer and an academic and then again in the policy Offices working working in the Pentagon's policy shop I've watched the Navy and Marine Corps as they seem to generally peacefully coexist I've noted the professional respect that exists among the naval officers of the two services But we know that historically they have tended to think quite naturally it turns out about the matters that impinge more directly on their Individual service rather than on the possibilities inherent in a greater level of operational integration between their two services And this is something I've been thinking quite a bit about since I was nominated for this job And it's a subject. I'm working hard to elevate this year Now it turns out To some extent that I'm pushing on an open door As I surveys the rich and operational doctrinal thinking going on with the department I see glimmers of hope and real movement toward greater integration and creative concepts. I See it in the 2007 2015 seapower strategies. I see it in the concept for latoral operations in a contested environment I see it in the concept of electronic maneuver warfare I see it in the concept of distributed lethality, and I see it in the reemergence of thinking about advanced space operations Real opportunities are presenting themselves for operationalizing a broader vision of American seapower And I see the two services moving forward to capture them For example, I don't think we've yet scratched the surface of just how game changing the integration of the f-35b Into our big-deck amphibs could be When I think of the power that plane will bring to the 11 decks an additional 11 decks that can now Participate more meaningfully in seat control power projection and maritime dominance I see the building blocks of an integrated seap American seapower begin to emerge When I hear the Navy talking about a desire to add offensive weapons to the amphibious ships as a method of distributing firepower When I hear the Marine Corps talking about wanting to put a squad of infantry and a couple of attack helicopters on the LCS I see the building blocks of an integrated American seapower begin to align themselves The Navy Marine Corps team has always been a force multiplying partnership that is unique Among all the US armed forces and without peer across the globe Not only does our Navy and Marine Corps team provide our military commanders with unsurpassability To conduct a full range of combat missions But because it is always forward it also provides our nation's leadership with an easily scaled flexible instrument of diplomacy able to influence would-be aggressors and regional troublemakers So by being forward in the right numbers With the right capabilities the Navy Marine Corps team provides the president the secretary of defense and our combatant commanders powerful deterrence and response options Naval forces that revolve around the central proposition that globally distributed American seapower requires creatively integrated Forces from the Navy and the Marine Corps will be uniquely postured and comprised for the term for deterrence of conflict And for rapid response to crises as we reimagine our concepts and doctrines with our emerging technologies We must think through how the nature of deterrence is changing and how the fine lines between Conventional and strategic deterrence may be blurring in the eyes of our adversaries This is the intellectual task of maritime strategists for those of you in this room many of those of you in this room In order to deliver on this proposition for more creative integration However, the two services must continue to build on their recent efforts to more closely align to interoperate and to cooperate The Navy Marine Corps shall no longer go to sea together But to go to sea as one Integration also means the leveraging of new technologies Now some of these concepts such as the integrated flight ops are only possible if certain emerging technologies like the f-35b are fully fielded And others suggest new ways to use old capabilities Our tech communities are exploring new capabilities the strategic and operational implications of which are yet to be uncovered by our strategist theorists and war gamers These communities need to see how the next technology Operational concept or combination of the two might spawn an operational leap in warfare unmanned systems or more accurately autonomous systems hyper velocity projectiles directed energy weapons cyber warfare Or perhaps technology we haven't even envisioned for military use Considered that distributed lethality has driven our tomahawk land attack missile To anti ship capability and the sm6 an anti air missile now has the capability to hit and kill ships So once in the fleet these weapons will provide our ships and submarines unprecedented capabilities We also need to think through the implications of a world where technology is no longer available to just the few well-heeled large militaries Advanced and disruptive technologies are rapidly proliferating to everyone Our adversaries no longer just nation states But a growing number of transnational actors that appear and operate at the speed of the internet and social media Moore's law which suggests exponential growth per year in digital technologies has effectively been exported Enabling our adversaries to adapt and employ technology as fast as the commercial world develops it Which compared with our overly bureaucratic and politicized processes is much faster than we usually can For example one very real real potential threat that encompasses the synergy of rapidly evolving commercial technology and unmanned systems is a weaponized commercial quadcopter like the ubiquitous semi-autonomous GPS guided phantom drone that is present at sporting venues and other public events It's not a far leap of imagination to envision a small swarm of these drones Armed with explosives in remote detonators attacking one of our ships or marine bases Now our self-defenses were designed for large missiles and aircraft traveling at several hundred miles an hour Not drones less than two feet long and traveling less than 20 miles per hour Even if we were able to target and kill these armed drones at a cost of about a thousand dollars per quadcopter They present a challenging asymmetric threat in place that places us on the wrong side of the cost curve This example demonstrates that we must also be innovative in our use of resources The fiscal pressures on our Navy and Marine Corps are real This means that our platforms and weapons systems must offer flexibility Capability and capacity while also being as cost-effective as possible The innovation challenges is how to provide the lethality we need at exponentially lower costs and this is not something that comes naturally to us At the R&D level we are more focused on the asymmetries gained with the technology and capability itself Not necessarily with the asymmetries of cost The Department of the Navy has some exquisite precision guided munitions over the last 30 years, but they are pricey As our adversaries develop more cost-effective weapons often leveraging commercial technology that is just good enough We can no longer afford to trade weapons priced in the millions in order to kill thousand dollar weapons This becomes especially true of our adversaries asymmetric tactic is to send swarms of low-cost low-tech Platforms or weapons systems against our sailors and Marines. We need to get on the right side of that cost curve This may mean adapting existing weapons systems and platforms from one-trick ponies to multi-mission capabilities That harness new cheaper technologies with new concepts or old tech and new innovation in new new and innovative ways So we in the Pentagon look to the Naval War College and those present here today To lead the next generation of war games and maritime strategy development that will identify and capitalize on asymmetric concepts in new technologies Our naval strategist must work hand-in-hand with our acquisition force and the fleet to develop or adapt The equipment necessary to execute these new tactics and strategies as well as to train our sailors and Marines on how to implement them The prime example and focus of the secretary of the Navy is on man systems. How will we use this capability? This is an area the secretary may best fully intense to develop into a core tool in the war fighting tool bag He has acted decisively and established two new offices a deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems and an office in the Op Nav and 99 and they work together and He has he has charged me as under secretary to elevate and energy energize their efforts as they focus on developing these unique capabilities The Department of the Navy has embarked on a series of tabletop war games workshops and conferences to explore novel operational concepts for unmanned systems and I intend to stay engaged in all of these efforts and to sponsor a capstone event toward the end of the year My focus is to bring the various communities together scientists operators industry and others to find the creative game-changing applications for these new technologies and This is where your efforts will be critical to our success It is not enough to only focus on developing the technology the technological capabilities are necessary, but not sufficient We must also discuss and develop the policy the concepts of operation and tactics to shape and enable these capabilities Develop your war game scenarios and workshops to challenge us to think not only about how we defend against disruptive technologies But also about the offensive uses of such systems and how all of this affects how we think about deterrence There are myriad areas to explore through your research in gaming How to develop the man machine interface to make autonomous systems a force multiplier for our more expensive and exquisite man platforms? How our existing and emerging concepts of operations such as distributed lethality and electronic maneuver warfare? Will integrate swarming autonomous systems nano robots all in the undersea airborne and ground domains How will our adversaries employ these systems and how will they adapt their new tactics? Will there be revolutionary change like the airplane or the tank requiring new concepts of operations and theories of battle Or will they just be a tweak to how we currently operate? Through new concepts and theories in gaming we must shape our future not just admire the complexity and uncertainty That our Navy and Marine Corps face So I hope that I've adequately framed the challenges and drivers that will shape our future maritime strategy for you Fiscal limitations are rapidly evolving and increasingly complex security environment and technology that is advancing and being adapted at astonishing speeds This in turn drives our Navy and Marine Corps to become more innovative and adaptive in our operational concepts Tactics and strategies. We must not allow ourselves to become myopic and fixated on just one threat We must continue to leverage the lessons of the master strategy strategists Facilities Sun Tzu, Klausowitz, Mao and Mahan for even as the world changes their core lessons hold true I strongly believe in the importance of learning from the past both historical successes and failures as we look to the future especially those examples of unforeseen or evolutionary changes to warfighting capabilities tactics operational art and strategy History has shown us that when America is stronger our allies are stronger and the world is safer So thank you again to the Naval War College for hosting this event for 67 years and To all of you here for the work you do and for your enduring commitment to America's sailors and Marines. Thank you Do not be shy If I don't have the answers Andy Krepenevich well Yes, ma'am Lieutenant Commander Bobby hand via student here at the War College. Thank you for your time in your comments They ring true with a lot of stuff that we've talked about through this year And as a member of the gravely research Advanced Warfare Research Group, we've also discussed that in detail With the adaptable and rapidly evolving technology One of the things that we find ourselves particularly as operators and going into the senior leadership positions How the acquisition process is very slow and lethargic? Get there you comment on what's being done to make that process more agile and shorter so that we don't have As you said in 20 30 they are lead time sometimes on some of these because the technology is evolving so fast Sure, it is it is a big challenge And I think you have to break up the the acquisition thing into categories I mean acquisitions of major major weapons systems like aircraft carriers the replacement for the Ohio class submarine You know ships airplanes Those are going to those are gonna be very it's gonna be very challenging to accelerate those kinds of processes. We have a Design process that takes takes a long time. You don't just throw a nuclear submarine in the water more over You know have many many restrictions in in law from Congress that you have to that you have to deal with for those things to Make sure that the that the processes are competitive and safe so that's one category and At least in the Navy our acquisition Assistant Secretary Sean Stackley has been Has been pretty crafty trying to find ways to to at least lower the cost curve Which is another problem for some of those systems And to try to accelerate I think though for a lot of the technologies we're talking about today autonomous systems You know swarming technologies things that sometimes we may think could be off the shelf I think that we could be a lot more clever about how we how we do that the Secretary of Defense's initiative DIUX Is is designed to do just that is designed and has it's under new leadership now, and I met with them just last week What they're trying to do is Kind of what we're taught what I'm talking about here today is link the communities the operators and the theorists With the developers that are already making things right and then trying to find new and clever uses for them and to expedite the contracting The contracting processes so they've got the contracting lawyers in a room together And they have recrafted some of the ways to do that So I think you'll start to see some of those things coming off the shelf and into the field a little bit faster And that's that's a that's good But at the end of the day Another part of the of that initiative is to is to try and fail like that like industry does and that That works for a while until Congress decides we're failing too much, and we don't know what that line is gonna be so But I I think that the the only way to do it is to test it to test that line and so I'm Moderately optimistic that they will be able to crack the code on some of those lower cost types of innovations But with the major weapons systems, I think we have a long way to go Dale Jenkins The as we all been reading the Chinese have developed a long range Course-correcting missile called the carrier killer which extends beyond the range of our aircraft on our carriers What implications to this does this have for the composition and tactics of the carrier battle groups? And also the cruise missiles that are on our cruisers that can counter that Chinese missile Well, I think that you have to look at the the challenges that we face beyond just Beyond just one weapon system and beyond just one adversary, but that said I take your point I think that some of the creative thinking that's going on in the concepts community for things like distributed lethality as well as a number of a Number of capabilities that are being developed are designed around those types of threats And I'm sort of optimistic about that. I think we need to I think we need to game it a lot more but the idea that That we're only going to use aircraft carriers and we're going to project power On to shore the way we've been doing for the past, you know, a couple decades I think we're I think we need to rethink that I think It's pretty well known that our adversaries Our future adversaries have been watching us for 10 and 20 years since the first Gulf War Since our precision guided munitions really changed the way they had to think about us And so I think as we look to the future We have to accept the fact that they've adapted to the way they think that we like to fight And we have to not fight that way, right? So that's why part of my remarks very Encouraged by a lot of the creative thinking in the concepts of operations that will challenge Challenge their emerging Concepts The first thing we were taught in this military school was to have independent Defense industry pursue on national interests. So that was basic things Turkish defense strategy, but I wonder your view about US view but allies to develop strategies to pursue their Interest which does not necessarily align with the United States and To and in this way they're acquiring new capabilities and Also exporting these regionally or globally. Thank you. Well, thank you for your question. I think that one of the most important things that America does is to develop and Maintain and nurture its vast network of allies and partners we do this in a lot of ways not just by Sharing our technologies and our weapons systems, but through training opportunities and exercises and an array of diplomatic engagements and My my attitude on this is that you're never it's never going to be perfect We are never going to perfectly align with any ally or any partner You're you're going to constantly on every single thing. You're going to constantly be having to be maneuvering are not maneuvering but massaging and and and in constant dialogue on on on the changing times so The refugee crisis in Europe is a great example it's Existentially affecting our partners and allies in the region and we want to help it's not affecting us in the same way So people have different interests and I think that I don't think that makes the relationships Fragile and I don't think it makes those relationships brittle. I think it can challenge them and and So that's the way we need to work. We need to work on that now the the idea that you you expressed about technologies being exported that's That's always been part of the part of the challenge or part of the gamble of these relationships And I don't see the United States changing Changing the way they operate with respect to allies because it is exactly what makes us Strong and safe as a global community I think that there's an old saying in Silicon Valley that when technology and bureaucracy meet bureaucracy wins a hundred percent of the time and I wonder how the Navy will think about the following challenge When Barnes and Noble was 18 million dollars Excuse me four and a half billion in sales Amazon was 18 million the problem that Barnes and Noble had was Smart people, but they didn't grow up with any technological way of thinking and Some people think the challenge for the DoD in the Navy is Smart people, but no technological way of thinking They're not the kind of people in the Navy that the old Michael Dell and Bill Gates ever would have hired So the challenge that the Navy has is it has defense contractors giving them stuff It has people with jobs and titles But none of them have the way of thinking that of those that get hired by Amazon and Jeff Bezos That is the time frame. So in a world where technology is the great leveler How is the Navy ever going to go as fast as the Chinese who are getting around that? some people have an advantage over us and that is that They find clever ways to copy our technologies Um You are bringing up a really important point and I think about the second time I came in to serve in the Pentagon it was it was December 2008 and President Obama had just won the election and I was asked to serve on the transition team in the Pentagon and You know the Obama campaign had been you know Dynamic and you know all these young people in Chicago and they were like on social media And it was really hip and cool and you know, I wasn't one of them in Chicago I was one of the boring think-tanky people in Washington, but so there we come together In the Pentagon on our first day and these kids come running in they whip open their laptops And they're like hey, what's the wireless code for the Pentagon? And I was just like Do you know where you are? You know, I'm there's no wireless at the Pentagon. Are you kidding me? But um and there's still no wireless at the Pentagon nearly seven eight years later But the point is this is how they operated. This is how we all operate it This is how I operated when I was outside for the last four years you know and I had I have my iPhone with me all the time and My assistant could text me and tell me I'm late for a meeting in the Pentagon They have to send out like a search team because nobody has their cell phones in the Pentagon, right? That's just an example that I'm reminded of every single day now that I've come back into the Pentagon How hard it is to operate inside our? Our our secure system now we do this for all the right reasons, but we have got to crack this code We have got to find ways to We can't continue to further isolate ourselves and Operate in a 20th century environment inside our systems when everybody else is operating in a different way for exactly the reason you say Because the next generation is not going to put up with that, right? They're just going to be like what no wireless code so and that's just one example and and it sort of Ripples into and characterizes the way companies and tech companies operate today so this is one of the reasons why I'm a big fan of Secretary Mavis and Secretary of Defense Carter's force of the future and Sailor 2025 initiatives where they really are trying to think through The next generation is going to think differently than we do They're going to operate differently than we do and we have got to adapt and we have got to change not only in our career management Methodologies but also in the ways that you just described so it's a huge challenge and it may it may require Accepting a little risk But I genuinely do not know what the answer is beyond that So over to you guys to figure that one out One more time Good morning, ma'am. Thanks very much for coming to speak with us today. I'm lieutenant commander Ed McClellan. I'm a Navy intelligence officer You started your conversation this morning with a discussion about the challenge to the international rules-based system of Order that was created after the Second World War And both the state-based and non-state-based challenges. And so I'm talking mostly about the state-based challenges here is the status quo best defended by a Policy that avoids escalation so that we promote stability or is it best defended by Resolve and a certain acceptance of risk of escalation Is that there's deterrence work best when we are willing to ride the escalation chain all the way? Thank you. I am so glad that that is the last question that You brought that up and that I'm gonna leave you with this idea because as my as my my team knows This is a big issue to me Deterrence I'll say the short answer is I don't think there is a best But the longer answer is we really need to rethink how we think about deterrence We have very sort of 20th century Just strategic nuclear ideas about deterrence if we have them at all And I say that because aside from places like the Naval Academy and the Naval War College and all the other PME institutions People won't study this stuff anymore So when you get to Washington and you know people like us have this ideas about deterrence by prevention or or deterrence by Denial right or deterrence by punishment the two two types that I think you're alluding to here There is just no you can't even start the conversation.  That's your classic security dilemma But we rode that edge a lot in the Cold War and we we have to not be afraid to ride it today Because not everything you do is by definition provocative You may need we may need to provoke a little in order to deter right and I think that's what you're getting at So when we do fawn ops in the South China Sea, yeah, that's gonna provoke But but you know at what cost right so we have to really I'm a I'm with Harry Harris Admiral Harris in his endeavor to continue those because I think it's really an important thing. So my point is that With the challenge in the South China Sea and the challenge that Russia prevent presents They're actively trying to ratchet up that Curve and every time they go up and we do nothing they can go up a little bit farther They're gonna keep testing and that's not that doesn't match our normal classic deterrence models So we have to we have to rethink those So I charge you with that, but I think your basic premise is that not everything we do is Provocative and that we have to actually be a little more bold We do have to be bold sometimes in order to deter so thank you


Hey Ryan, could you just tell us how you're feeling, how it's been at Appleton and you know, if you felt good or if you felt ready? I feel pretty good. I'm happy and excited to be back. I thought everything at Appleton went really well. Similar to what we have going on here, I thought it was very well organized and they're prepared. Obviously everything is different there just like it is here. You know, it's different to play in an inter-squad game than it would be to go playing in regular games somewhere with an affiliate, but it's obviously our only option. I feel like my timing is still a work in progress, but overall I felt good. Finger was a non-issue and it was fun to be a part of a great comeback and a good win. Yeah, it was very encouraging.  I think Obby's starting off the game for us offensively with the homerun was a big, big moment after they went ahead 2-0 with a couple homeruns in the first inning. He swung the bat well all day. I think Manny Pino has got, it feels like to me, he's had so many clutch hits throughout his career, but today was one of his better games that I've seen. Obviously both homeruns were important. The second one was huge. You know, and then Jed obviously coming through there in the eighth inning. So a lot of guys contributing. This is typically how we've won a lot of games over the years. So very encouraging to see multiple guys swing the bats well to hit some homeruns and to string together some rallies, which we haven't done enough of to this point this year. I mean, the circumstances were a little bit different, but I'd say the excitement level was relatively similar. It reminded me actually he had a homerun on Mother's Day, I think a couple years ago. Big homerun, dramatic comeback. I want to say we were playing the Mets or something. And it felt kind of like that moment. But it's cool. I mean, again, we have to create our own excitement and enthusiasm and he got the dugout fired up. And, you know, that part of this whole experience is a work in progress. It's a huge challenge for all of us and to see that level of excitement and enthusiasm for him is something that we all feed off of as a team. Hey, Ryan, have you noticed guys are taking the COVID thing a little bit more seriously lately? Just in terms of you see more guys backing up now, the distancing seems to be a little bit more of a priority. Just from your standpoint, are guys really taking more notice of that and trying to be more careful? Yeah, I think we've done a great job of it, in my opinion, here.  I think they've been very prepared, very organized, very communicative. For all of us as players, obviously, we're paying attention to what's going on around the league and you recognize just how dangerous the situation still is. So I do think everybody's taking every precaution within reason. Obviously, all of these things are adjustments for all of us. You know, on some of the hotter days, it becomes more challenging to have the mask on all day long. But I think guys are trying to wear it in the dugout, trying to wear it during batting practice, always having it on in the locker room and doing everything in their power to try to keep this thing as safe as possible. Hey, Ryan, without Lorenzo Payne, Craig had mentioned you playing a little bit more right field whenever you were ready to do that. I'm just curious if the finger, what kind of issue that new presents, like anything at all right now as far as getting on the field? Yeah, throwing is a little bit more challenging than swinging right now. I played right field yesterday in Appleton for five or six innings of the inner squad game, but throwing is a bit more of a challenge than swinging. But I do think I could play the outfield whenever I'm needed. Ryan, this is a far different lineup than last year. There's a lot of guys that aren't here now. But for now that you're starting to feel better and, you know, testin and Christian have been swinging the bats better, do you have hopes that this offense will improve? Yeah, of course. I mean, you know, a lot of guys here have track records. I think most guys are better than what they've shown to this point. One of the things I'm most encouraged by is that collectively as an offense, there's a lot of guys that have under-achieved to this point. So you hope that a lot of guys kind of get going at the same time, which is usually a recipe for success. So two of the last three games, I feel like we swung the bats really well. You know, that last game against Cincinnati facing Sonny Gray, who's been one of the best pitchers in the National League the last couple years, swung the bats really well. Tonight we swung the bats really well. So hopefully we continue to build off of this and you get at least a handful of guys swinging the bat well at the same time, which usually leads to sustained rallies and more runs.


Hello and welcome to the Fort Report. I'm Chris Conley and I'm Alicia Woodruff. It's time for another redistricting and gas drilling public meeting. Yep, I got to check the other day for a dollar so you know I'm all in. If you have thoughts about gas drilling and I know some of you do, well, speak up and join the City Council during the 7 p.m. meeting at City Hall on October 18th. Also, a topic of discussion will be whether you would like Fort Worth to have the current eight council districts or 10. This is yet another chance to have a voice in the discussion, so get involved. As fun as that sounds, I'm excited about the Frontier Fall Fest at Log Cabin Village. Nobody celebrated harvest time like the pioneers, so let's see how they did it before electricity. You'll be able to grind grain by hand, shell corn, fresh wheat, bob for apples, pressed tortillas, and more. There'll also be live music, unplugged of course, and a pumpkin carving contest. Come on out October 15th from 1 to 4 p.m. For more information, blah, blah, blah, blah, website on the screen. Wow, and I thought I was phoning it in sometimes. Whatever, let's see you bring the excitement with the bike rack story. Fine. It's on. Okay folks, if we got a great offer for you here, don't miss out on your chance at a piece of history. As we all know, the city is a proponent of biking to work or wherever else you want to go, but where do you park it? Sure, the city's installed a number of bike racks downtown, but how about your very own bike rack in front of your very own business? That's right, act now and the city will actually install it for you. There's an application process, of course. Be prepared to sell your area's needs. Now, what's something like this going to cost? $500? A thousand? No, it's free. You heard me right, but act fast. These items won't be available for long. Call now,<PHONE_NUMBER>. And that is how you bring the enthusiasm. That's not fair. You had graphics. So, let's see how they did it before electricity. Weird electricity. Nobody celebrated harvest time like the... Unplugged, of course, and a pumpkin carving...


So, you know how to slap on materials, but you need more control. Not a problem. Let's say you have some gold materials set for the boots, but let's say you want to apply the blue armor material to the heel of the boots. What's the fastest way to do that? Well, assuming you drag a smart material onto a texture ID map like in the last tutorial, you'll see a mask on the right next to the material you want to apply. Right click and add paint. From here on the left side you'll see a polygon fill tool. Now the polygon tool has four modes. The first is a triangle, which allows you to left click and apply materials to the triangles of each quad on your mesh. You can also drag select if you want to quickly grab a group. Just remember that the drag tool goes through the entire object, so if you drag, it's going to go through everything. Also, you can left click on the object or the 2D texture map, so just pick whatever is easiest for you. Next is the quad mode, which is the exact same thing as the triangles, but for quads. The third mode is object mode, so if you have an object that is completely separate from everything. If you left click from here, it's just going to flood the entire object, which is super fast and useful. The last mode though is UV mode, which allows you to apply your work in a way that only targets things according to your UV. Because the boot is a single object, if we were to apply with object mode, it would flood the entire thing. But we only want to apply the blue armor to the heel. And luckily, I've already organized the UVs of the heel so that they're separate from the rest of the boot. So if you're on UV mode, you can actually just left click on the heel and it will automatically paint it based on the UVs. And again, you can click directly on the texture map or the 3D model itself. Last thing you should know is the layers function the exact same way they do in other art software like Photoshop or GIMP. They stack on top of each other. Remember, the original boot was completely gold, and we added a blue armor material on top, which is why we can see the blue. But if we drag the gold layer on top of the blue layer, you are not going to see blue anymore, because it's underneath the gold layer. So keep the order of your stack in mind when you're applying materials. Anyway, hope that helps, and as always, I hope you have a fantastic day, and I'll see you around.