the road to a reduced U.S. presence on the Island of Okinawa has been paved with quite a few speed bumps.
Shouldn't we resolve these issues completely before we continue to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the construction of a new Marin...
Secretary Gates, what is DOD's plan to rectify these issues with Guam?
Full tour normalization in Korea will further our long-term commitment to support our forward stationed troops and their family members.
Iran provides the greatest challenge to the United States and the international community.
We face the destabilization of critical counterterrorism partners like Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, and Bahrain.
The current Tehran regime is incapable of trying to let other nations just take care of their own issues.
What is planned to address these shortfalls?
I support the ongoing analysis for further growth for the ANSF, the greatest success of our last year their quantifiable and qualifiable gro...
Prime Minister Maliki has said that he will investigate each death, each injury, and make certain they know what happened in each case.
The United States needs to make constantly clear it supports those seeking to exercise their fundamental rights in the Middle East and aroun...
This is of course deeply unsettling, but it is also an unprecedented opportunity to support the peoples of the Middle East in shaping a new ...
We face the Iranian regime's desire to develop a nuclear weapons capability and to exploit the current regional instability to expand its he...
I think you correctly and characteristically bluntly identify as our greatest long-term threat in the region.
The historic changes now reshaping the broader Middle East are a direct repudiation of al Qaeda and its terrorist allies.
The transition process will start with a limited conditions-based withdrawal this year.
Not since the fall of the Soviet Union have we seen a wave of change destabilize more critical countries all at once than we are now witness...
the populist-inspired changes are a direct repudiation of the violent extremists because these young folks today have achieved more change i...
