Deborah Lee James: “If you are reduced to one single way, that is the equivalent of putting all your eggs in one basket.”

We made assumptions that we wouldn't be using Army forces in Europe the way we used to, we made assumptions that we wouldn't go back into Iraq--and here we are back in Iraq, here we are worried about Russia again.

The loss of assured access to space would be extremely damaging to national security.

If we return to sequestration in fiscal year 2018, this will exacerbate the readiness problem and set us even farther back.

It takes two to tango, and we can have all the urgency in the world, but we cannot give away the farm if the negotiation does not go well.