Martin Dempsey: “If we have fewer forces forward, we will be less deterrent and less reassuring to our allies.”

Funding lower than President's budget 2016 and lacking the flexibility to make the internal reforms that we believe we need to make will put us in a position where we will have to change our national security strategy.

You cannot kill all the militants in the world with all the air strikes in the world. It just doesn't work that way. You have to kill the ideology.

We have an obligation to ensure that victims of sexual assault can report the crime without concern of retaliation.

I share alarm about the future of Iraq, and we are developing a full range of options to help stabilize the region.