That brings me to my greatest concern right now as Secretary and, frankly, the greatest security risk we are facing as a Nation, which is budget uncertainty, which could prompt the most significant military readiness crisis in more than a decade.
Panetta highlights budget uncertainty as a major national security risk.
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It’s poor planning to wind up with your stockpiles of key weapons being depleted.
And ... we’re going to have to respond. And right now, because our missile systems and our supply of weapons being down, this is a vulnerable period for the United States.
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.
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