Without a new air-launched cruise missile, you foresee a future in which that B-21 might have to penetrate into advanced air defenses rather than being able to use a stand-off cruise missile?
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.
I want to encourage you to continue to try to address them and resolve them at the speed that our warfighters need.
the Obama administration in 2009 reset relations with Russia 6 months after it invaded Georgia.
So Hezbollah, a declared terrorist organization that operates in the Middle East, is responsible in part for the drug flow in Latin America that has had the impact that you have heard Senators on this dais talk about today, killing…
Is it fair to say the INF Treaty is a treaty that is more beneficial to the United States than it is to Russia?
If the program is not working, it does not seem... that we should be accelerating more money into that program.
The Budget Control Act is not the Constitution, and the 112th Congress was not the Constitutional Convention. We should simply repeal it.
What is the level of political consensus and stability between the north and the south in that country right now?
I think there is goodness in the INF Treaty. Anything you can do to limit nuclear weapons at large is a general good probably.
A decade from now, ALCMs will not be able to penetrate Russian air defenses, and, therefore, there is an urgency to their replacement.





