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(Interviewer) 
Ma'am, Secretary Austin said that DOD, in his 
confirmation said DOD needs resources to match  

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strategy; a strategy to match, match to policy; and 
policy matched to the will of the American people.  

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The real key here is resources to match 
strategy. I guess most defense budget experts  

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said that DOD budget needed to grow between 
3 and 5 percent per year to match  

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strategy to resources; yet, most pundits also 
say that they expect the DOD budget to be flat.  

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How does that work? 

(Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks)
We don't know as much 
about how strategy links to the concepts  

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for our theory of how we achieve victory against 
potential adversaries, our theories of how we deter  

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those adversaries, and the kinds of capabilities 
we buy -- and that's what ultimately needs to link  

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to strategies. We owe a budget, and there's 
a budget number attached to it, but I think  

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where the department can really expand 
on what's happened over the course of  

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the last 10 years in terms of reorienting 
toward, in particular, the China challenge  

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is start to pull out that piece that, that 
connects strategy to budget through capabilities.