Martin Dempsey: “If ever the force is so degraded and so unready, and then we're asked to use it, it would be immoral.”

As we look at our strategies for the future I think we have got to pay more and particular attention to energy as an instrument of national power, and I think that has to be factored in to the equation here.

I have said before and I believe it today as well that today's readiness problem is tomorrow's retention problem.

Under no circumstances should we relieve pressure on Iran relative to ballistic missile capabilities and arms trafficking.

We owe them a little certainty in their lives.