Another reform I'm calling for is putting Nunn-McCurdy 'on steroids'.
I agree with Ambassador Crocker that the ISF have made enormous progress, and we expect that the elections will take pla...
Secretary Gates, what is your understanding of the effect of unrequested earmarks on the Department's ability to maintai...
should some sort of rehabilitative program be established at Guantanamo Bay, similar to some of the programs recently im...
Another reform I'd like to see is establishing (and resourcing adequately) an Office of Independent Assessment to provid...
I support efforts to increase the number of civilian officials and the overall non-military level of effort in Afghanist...
I am very skeptical of what's going to happen down there.
Yes, I agree that business as usual is not an option, and that hard choices are needed.
At the request of the Government of Afghanistan, Allied Ministers directed ISAF to take action in concert with Afghans a...
We won't be able to achieve our goals in Afghanistan without addressing the drug problem?
this is going to be a long slog.
I believe that we need to develop a comprehensive civil-military plan for Afghanistan, akin to that used in Iraq.
Do you believe we can count on the Afghan central government to seriously address the drug problem during the upcoming e...
Yet I believe there are non-military ways to blunt Iran's power to threaten its neighbors and sow instability throughout...
The SOFA marks an important step forward in the orderly drawdown of the American presence.
what can the United States do to convince some of our friends and allies to help solve this problem by taking some of th...
Has the F-22 flown a single combat sortie in the CENTCOM theater?
I have noticed too much of a tendency towards what might be called 'next-war-it-is,' the propensity of much of the defen...
