General Chris Donahue

What is our role?

As the military, what do we have to produce?

The first thing is, especially for the U.S.

military, but also for the 32 members of NATO, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, and you'll see many of these other four countries from Asia here as well.

If you were to go across to Saguen and Satu, you see them there.

Why?

Because we understand the global threat.

So what is our role here?

So as the land comm commander for NATO,

and as the United States Army Europe Africa Commander, our previous bosses, General Walters, General Cavoli, now General George in particular, as we drive what we have to do out here.

And what is that specifically?

So as we talk about everything that all these things that everybody talks about, what is the specificity required to truly make that change?

Well, the first thing is those previous leaders have converged all the plans so that we have unity of effort

and unity of exactly what we have to do, and they're called the regional plans.

Within those regional plans, we started in the Baltics to try to get to how do you actually make it so that industry and the nations know exactly what the requirements are.

Ultimately, that is now known as the Eastern Flank Deterrence Line.

The Eastern flank deterrence line is the capability that hinges all these regional plans together.

So as we all talk about these things that are so important, the use of data, you actually can use data.

So whenever we talk about how are we gonna use these new forms of mass, the unmanned systems, well, how do you build that to a standard that you can actually fight it throughout an alliance, but as important, because this is global, how do you use it in the Middle East?

How do you use it in the Pacific?