Martin Dempsey: “Guantanamo does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does.”

An energy independent and net exporter of energy as a nation has the potential to change the security environment around the world, notably in Europe and in the Middle East.

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.

eliminating one terrible Middle Eastern dictator can too often lead to even more brutal influences filling the leadership vacuum