I don't know of a time of greater tension since the end of the Korean War that exists today between North Korea, South Korea, and us.
My question is would you recommend that we intercept a missile if it is launched by North Korea, no matter where the intended target is?
the defense budget for the 2014 request is $52 billion over the spending cap imposed by the BCA.
I am very worried because Congress is not going to raise taxes to eliminate the sequester.
It is in your interests, in my view, to give us that information as to what would happen if we just simply complied with existing law.
General Dempsey, the Commandant of the Marine Corps says the sequester's impact on marines constitutes excessive risk.
President Obama identified nuclear proliferation as a key danger to the United States and its allies, and it is a danger.
But you need to share those with Congress, Mr. Secretary.
I do not think that is too----
The disarmament provision and the President's policies are undermined by our inability to keep regimes such as North Korea and Iran from dev...
If something does not change.
I don't hear the President of the United States, the Commander in Chief, saying: 'This is destroying our military.'
I made a comment early in my testimony, that I came into a hollow Army; I don't want to leave a hollow Army when I leave the Army.
Finally, in the event of hostilities on the Korean Peninsula, we all know the North Koreans would lose, they could inflict incredible damage...
It's inevitable we would return to the era of a hollow Army.
I worry that we are getting somewhat used to that.
Arguably, the world is in many ways more dangerous than we have ever seen it.
Does it intrigue you, as it does me, that there doesn't seem to be the concern in Congress that there was back in 1976?
