Richard Shelby: “I think it's an affront to this committee and to a lot of us for Congress and to Congress's power of the purse.”

Deterrence requires spending our limited resources on both offensive and defensive weapons.

As Senator Shelby at our Senate testimony hearing last March pointed out to us, we must maintain what we have before we can build new, and I think he hits the mark head-on.

Russia's launched multiple hypersonic weapons as part of their invasion of the Ukraine and China is continuing to develop its own hypersonic weapons.

Regrettably, this was all predictable and avoidable.