China continues a methodical strategy to control the South China Sea.

This is an important fight that we need to win, and there is every reason that we should be able to do that.

But you are asking for a budget number that would improve that. Are you not?

Let me follow up on the chairman's statement with regard to the Air Force cyber officers not remaining in that field of work.

It is shameful that China has retaliated against South Korea with economic and cyber means.

I've said this many times before--sequestration must be repealed.

With regard to the cyber service, which you are doubtful about, do I understand Britain does have such a cyber force?

Well, how about for the next few years?

Your testimony would be that this has not happened because the support among the Afghan people of our efforts has diminished.

You cannot give us that number of how you hope to look in 5 years?

While Mexico's efforts to combat transnational criminal organizations have resulted in notable successes by capturing or killing senior cartel leaders such as El Chapo, the security situation remains highly volatile.

In January of this year, I understand that for the first time since World War II, there were no aircraft carriers deployed anywhere.

Do the Afghan people support the presence of the United States there?

It seems to me the chairman's point is the dramatic point, and that is that there is this short-range artillery and we have no defense should North Korea decide to unleash those.

As a matter of fact, several years ago, there was a loya jirga convened of most Afghan leaders, and they overwhelmingly were in support of the United States presence there to protect them against what had happened before.

The Afghan Government controls 57 percent of the country's districts. A year and a half ago, that figure was 72 percent. What happened?

To hold onto an outdated treaty is to put our forces and citizens at risk.

Russia is deploying the full array of tools in the Kremlin playbook to challenge the West.