Joe Lieberman

The Nunn-McCurdy breach, to state it in simplistic terms, was a critical breach.

So that may be part of the problem.

General Lennox and General Phillips, how has the current M4 carbine performed in theater?

General Lennox and General Phillips, will there be competitive prototyping for this program through a technology demonstration phase and into an engineering, manufacturing, and development phase?

Is the Army still committed to the full planned buy of 511 aircraft?

It is our responsibility here in this committee to understand what those challenges are so we can better advocate for you.

What is possible there? That we would adapt those designs to our own use, or that we would actually purchase from them?

We desperately need a replacement for that, and we think we are on a good path for that as well.

That is great to hear.

I appreciate your checking to confirm that that is the still the buy.

Bottom line, except for the case you mentioned about Italy, which may have more to do with their budget problems, all 10 are on board.

The delays and cost increases that have occurred are troubling, but I appreciate the seriousness with which you have responded.

But still, I presume that our goal is zero.

In your view, is there a clear requirement for a new IC?

The Humvee is not a vehicle that soldiers can operate in today outside of the fence line.

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A military in a democracy can be winning a war on the battlefield and lose it on the political battlefield at home.

It seems so logical to me.

It remains a threat. So that the continued existence of these safe havens for our enemy forces in Pakistan obviously makes the fight that we have to fight more difficult.

Though the Afghan security forces will be taking the lead in combat in Afghanistan, that doesn't necessarily mean that we can precipitously cut our troop presence.

The United States is not going to make the same mistake that we made in 1989.

Can you conceive of any way we could convince the Pakistanis to take more aggressive action to close down those safe havens or to give us the opportunity to do so with them?