I look forward to working with our international partners to help create a truly comprehensive civil-military strategy to help the Afghans build the necessary foundation for a stab...
Secretary Gates, will they increase the number of civilian experts they send to Afghanistan to help with reconstruction ...
Illicit drugs and terrorists should not determine the fate of Afghanistan.
I am concerned that each Service may grow beyond their capacity to provide adequate support for the new military personn...
A program like FCS . . . must continue to demonstrate its value for the types of irregular challenges we will face as we...
What added measures are necessary--on the part of the Department, industry and Congress--to further accelerate the deliv...
Another reform I'm calling for is putting Nunn-McCurdy 'on steroids'.
I agree with Ambassador Crocker that the ISF have made enormous progress, and we expect that the elections will take pla...
Secretary Gates, what is your understanding of the effect of unrequested earmarks on the Department's ability to maintai...
should some sort of rehabilitative program be established at Guantanamo Bay, similar to some of the programs recently im...
Another reform I'd like to see is establishing (and resourcing adequately) an Office of Independent Assessment to provid...