I apologize. I do not know if this is better directed towards General Williamson or the G-3s. Can we get an update on where these operational needs statements responses stand?
Tom Cotton
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Tom Cotton is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Arkansas since January 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he has been a prominent voice on various national security and foreign policy issues. Cotton is known for his strong stance on military matters and has advocated for a robust U.S. presence abroad, particularly in relation to China and Russia. He has also focused on immigration reform and economic policies aimed at supporting American workers.
This approach, keeping sequestration in effect for fiscal year 2016, plusing up OCO spending, not good, better than nothing.
I speak for the first time from the Senate floor with a simple message: The world is growing ever more dangerous and our defense spending is wholly inadequate to confront the danger. To be exact: During the last four or five years the…
Deterrence works best whenever the lines we draw are clear and strongly enforced.
Thank you, gentlemen, for all your service and for the men and women who sit behind you, not just on behalf of all the troops you represent, but you, personally.
You're on the offense when you're moving, and you're on the defense when you're not on the offense.
So, do I understand you correctly to say that there are now no Iranian forces in Tikrit?
Twenty-five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, 50 years after the Cuban missile crisis, 200 years after the Monroe Doctrine, your opinion is that, if this Congress proceeds with the sequestration cuts to our defense, we will see…
In the end, it's my expectation that we want to keep Thailand. We love the Thai people.
What we're hopeful for is that the leadership--current leadership in Thailand will move actively and aggressively to restore, you know, rule of law, constitutional processes, and civilian control of government.





