Admiral Michael Mullen: “The direction you get from a President in a situation like that is 'Do everything you can.' It's all the guidance that…”

I remain concerned that the pace of current operations prevents our forces from training across the entire range of operations and erodes our readiness to counter future threats.

The biggest threat to our national security is our deficit.

The national debt was the greatest threat to the national security of the United States.

The national debt's the number-one security threat of the United States of America.