How would a unilateral reduction impact our ability to deter, provide extended deterrence, and defend ourselves, if attacked?

Do you support the standards for detainee treatment specified in the revised Army Field Manual on Interrogations, FM 2-22.3, issued in September 2006, and in DOD Directive 2310.01E, the DOD Detainee Program, dated September 5, 2006?

sequestration will be devastating to our national defense, the military, and our defense industrial base.

some alternative fuels, such as biofuels, cost five to eight times as much as conventional fuels, with no guarantee that market forces will bring these costs down.

The Air Force is currently flying the oldest fleet of aircraft in its history.

If sequestration takes effect, the resulting across-the-board cuts would be devastating to our military's readiness.

Funding for military construction has been in a constant decline.

I believe DOD can and should improve efficiencies in energy use and expand in the use of alternative energy sources; however, it should not come at the cost of manning, training, or equipping the force.

The Air Force remains fully committed to the F-35 program, which is the future of the fighter force.

I would want to maintain those programs in a very strong way, not just IMET but train-and-equip, FMS, foreign military financing, and some of the other programs.

People are dying because we are not using it properly.

Dr. Hicks, as a senior policy advisor, what is your opinion of GTMO and its operations?

I think they have renamed that the Combatant Commander's Initiative Fund program, the 1206 train and equip International Military Education and Training (IMET) program.

I fully support the modernization of our nuclear weapons labs.

General Allen made a statement, and he had some pretty strong feelings because of the rumors that are out there, that perhaps prior to the mandatory withdrawal of 2014 they might be accelerating this. He had some strong feelings about…

There has not been one new detainee admitted since 2008.

I would like to have you be aware and talk to General Ham about what a mistake that would be.

Once these relations are developed, they do not end and they are always there.