Jon Kyl: “We're obviously not starting anything, we're playing catch up, and it's going to be a pretty tough job to catch up”

The threat briefings that we received leave no question that both China and Russia, but particularly China see space as a war fighting domain.

Mr. Chairman, Representative Jacobs, the fact is that our current system has deteriorated and aged to the point that we wouldn't be confident in the deterrent value of it on out into the future.

The first thing we've got to do is have a conventional capability which is so dominant that no party would ever consider a nuclear attack against the United States.

It's enough that it's opportunistic. In other words, we're in a conflict with one, and the other sees that this is an opportunity.