Although military activity would be a last resort, it is something that we cannot completely rule out.

. . . the ground force permanently assigned to EUCOM is inadequate to meet the combatant command's directed mission to deter Russia from further aggression.

We also need to have an ability, either your organization or someone, to respond and to try to prevent.

This effort will reassure our regional partners and send a strong signal to potential adversaries of our persistent commitment to the region.

I think that we need the administration to be clearer about what they have in mind here.

General McDew, do the Department's operational plans for regional and global contingencies assume 100 percent logistics, 100 percent of the time?

We certainly have a lot more to do.

It is clear that his goal is a nuclear weapon and the means to deliver it to the United States of America.

It is not a matter of whether. It is a matter of when.

OCO [overseas contingency operations] is a gimmick.

I think that what we are talking about that the North Koreans have is rockets, which would not lend itself to Iron Dome defenses.