Martin Dempsey: “Our military power will be less credible because it will be less sustainable.”

If anybody here thinks I want to be the Chairman that goes down in history for having carved up pay and compensation and health care, I assure you I do not. I don't want to be that Chairman. The problem is there's going to be a Chairman…

ISIL would love nothing more than a large presence of United States forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria so that they could have a call to jihad.

I have one sacred obligation to the young men and women who serve. And only one.

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