Leon Panetta: “The dwell times for our deploying forces are primarily driven by our commitment in Afghanistan and other operations…”

What Trump is trying to do in order to convince Putin to come to the table is not going to work if Putin senses weakness on the part of the United States.

Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.

Mr. Trump has always prided himself on being a dealmaker, pledging in his campaign that he would resolve such conflicts in the first few days of his presidency.

Something, somebody, somewhere failed to do the proper planning for what had to take place in order to properly support our men and women in uniform.