Ben Nelson: “Hard choices had to be made.”

Double the number of ICBMs the current force is capable of defeating without adding a single new GBI

It is encouraging to know that there is that effort at coordination and collaboration because if there is any quick way to lose opportunity or to miss optimization, it is everyone going off on their own way.

We cannot just be catching up or trying to stay at par with the rest of the world or otherwise our defenses are down.

If there were trust, then it would be much easier for the oversight to move away from transactional to more directional.