"I appreciate the answer. I appreciate your testimony. You have been very responsive. You are really an impressive group of leaders."
"The Army has been reassessing its modular armored and infantry brigade structures and will soon decide to add a third maneuver battalion."
"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."
"It seems so logical to me."
"a military in a democracy can be winning a war on the battlefield and lose it on the political battlefield at home."
"the United States is not going to make the same mistake that we made in 1989."
"You mentioned the counterproductive role played in different ways by two of the neighbors, Pakistan and Iran, noting that the Taliban operates 'with impunity' in Pakistan and that 'Iran continues to s..."
"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."
"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?"
"the political decisionmakers are going to be guided by what's happening on the battlefield."
"I think the reaction that I hear from the committee members is generally one of support, that we're doing well militarily, this is a situation that we've invested a lot of life and treasure into over ..."