Leon Panetta: “You can't have a huge infrastructure supporting a reduced force.”

And the problem is, we now realize that 80% of our THAADs are down, that our Patriots were down almost more than one half … and we’re down in our Stingers, we’re down with all of our critical missile systems at a time when there is a real…

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.

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

I think we have to take this intelligence assessment as a real threat to NATO.