Senator, I agree, we can, today, defend it, and it's going to continue to evolve.
There is not a precise comparison but an analogy to your proposal with respect to some of the health care programs in the military.
Certainly, I think that the threat that the TTP has presented certainly has changed their thinking in a number of areas, and they do conside...
I think you remind us that one of the issues that we have to deal with is the exfiltration of individual fighters, et cetera, and that is so...
Cyber is part of what is going on in the Ukraine, cyber is now a fully developed dimension of any type of conflict.
it is a resource issue, and it might even be getting the direction from DOD to do that
pressure is felt even more keenly in some of these civilian agencies that sometimes do not have the same emotional appeal to Congress
This is a tragic situation at Fort Hood.
They might represent the most sophisticated technological platforms that the Chinese have in terms of their seaborne platforms?
Do you have informal contact with Chinese counterparts and a perspective on what their attitude is towards the regime in Pyongyang today?
The lift is the enabler that makes that happen.
I would rank them very highly. They are a modern, capable force.
Without that lift, you would be challenged to simply conduct opposed amphibious assault.
In fact, in your statement you allude to the possibility that this will slip.
This is not simply a Navy issue, because this is the central part of our nuclear triad.
I have a few seconds remaining, so I have more of a comment than a question.
General Odierno, one of the principles of a reduced force is that it is more readily deployed, faster, quicker, with more lethality, better ...
But typically the training level and the training test of the year is at the platoon and company level; is that fair?
