Leon Panetta: “We must ensure that future defense spending decisions are strategically informed and focused on priorities and risks.”

I think America will be back fighting Iran again in a few years, no matter what happens now.

It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.

The answer is no, not at all. Not in 100 years. These plans that the Pentagon develops, we -- we develop these plans to deal with every potential crisis that's out there.

it's shaping up to be “Trump’s Vietnam,”