Lloyd Austin: “Clearly, AQAP [Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] is dominant in that country.”

if we don't fund State and others to the right level, then we are going to need more bullets because they do great and important work to move things towards greater stability and security in all regions of the world.

We owe it to the members of the community to ensure that we do in fact do this.

the price of U.S. leadership is real, but it is far lower than the price of U.S. abdication.

was a unique demonstration of the United States' ability to target facilities that our adversaries seek to keep out of reach, no matter how deeply buried underground, hardened or fortified.