Tom Cotton actually said...

We got stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan because we cared about the political outcomes of those countries afterwards.

Cotton discusses the importance of political outcomes in military engagements.

03/14/2017

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We cannot afford to assume that the enemy will resemble threats of recent wars.

Those characteristics would seem to point at least as strongly in favor of a fixed price contract as they would cost-plus.

The current budget request has rhetorically acknowledged an increase of worldwide threats.