Although we do not have territory there, we have vital interests--particularly freedom of navigation.
Yes. I believe that being a party to the Convention would help enlist support from other countries to get offending countries to drop their ...
It would give us the opportunity to be able to engage when it comes to navigational freedoms and navigational rights.
Hopefully by mid to the latter part of 2013, we will be able to make a transition from a combat role to a training, advice, and assist role.
Sequestration and the cuts involved in sequestration would be a disaster for the Defense Department and would truly hollow out our force and...
the bottom line is that anything that takes the Assad regime down is a step in the right direction right now
we owe it to the taxpayers to be transparent and accountable for how we spend their dollars
they are going to get their financials in shape. They are going to be auditable not just by 2017; he wants to beat that date.
Secretary Panetta has described the defense sequestration cuts as catastrophic, inflicting severe damage to our national defense for generat...
Let me be clear. You can't take a half trillion out of the defense budget and not incur additional risk. There is no margin for error.
a smaller, ready, and well-equipped military is preferable to a larger, ill-prepared force.