Southern Command and Africa Command is just a great example, where all the agencies of government are coming together to address a particular problem.

I think Africa Command in its uniquely interagency composition is in a posture to contribute to countering that effort.

I would encourage you to, as one of your first things that you do, which I encouraged General Chilton to do the same thing, and I think he would reaffirm that this is good advice: Go visit the three national labs.

I think it's important that we sustain the legs that we have today.

General Ham, we have a problem of drugs going into West Africa and then it just goes right on up to Europe.

I think the way in which AFRICOM could probably bring military assets to bear are in maritime domain awareness.

U.S. missile defense systems would be deployed to defend the United States against limited missile launches and to defend its deployed forces, allies, and partners against regional threats.

What is not pointed out enough, it seems to me, is that the exact same thing happened at the time of START I.

Each leg of the triad has advantages that warrant retaining all three legs.

I'm very concerned that Hugo Chavez is going to play by the same playbook as Ahmadinejad.

There is a connection between Venezuela and Iran.

The military means a lot to Florida, and Floridians love the military.

Their unilateral statement is not binding on us, it is not part of the treaty.

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