I'm here to tell you, we have a stewardship toward these people and if we, the civilian leadership, don't articulate this stewardship, in a ...
I would just like to reiterate a few points that I made on this before, that it is properly before the OSD...
In our current strategic environment, these commitments can affect force structure in the short-term but really not play out to our national...
As a maritime nation, we should improve the quality and strength of our seapower.
We run the risk, as I mentioned to General Petraeus and General McChrystal, of allowing our success to be defined by something that's never ...
Why, 6 years then after September 11, were we asking civilian contractors to teach our military people how to perform military functions?
You have written in the past, that you believe that there should be a residual force in Iraq of approximately 60,000 American military, do y...
I think the key thing is to implement the SOFA, and to reduce our role and our numbers there.
I would hope that we could proceed forward in a very careful way, in terms of making any more mandatory obligations as to where our military...
The Senator Kerry-Senator Lugar bill is very important as far as I'm concerned, because it's not about the $1.5 billion a year as much as it...
NATO expansion originally started out as being very much about creating a Europe that's whole and free.
I would hope that in this process, we can end up with a clearly articulated end-point.
You don't see--and I'm not trying to put words in your mouth--from what I'm hearing, you would not analogize the situation in Iraq to, for i...
If you cannot clearly articulate when the commitment will be ended, then we tend to move sort of in an ad hoc way.
Stability is one issue. But being mandatorily committed to coming to the defense of a country...is very troublesome.
We're entering a period where DOD, and I think the people at this table understand it--other people in DOD have to realize that these budget...
If you shoot the people who do it and blow up their boats, they won't be back.
We have a stewardship to those people, that's quite a bit different than the way we address the career force.
