"Clearly, AQAP [Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] is dominant in that country."
"In Yemen, that's really undetermined."
"the government has to be accommodating to both the Sunni and the Kurd population, and we have to increasingly get the Sunnis involved."
"We are working as an international coalition to staunch the flow of foreign fighters to the battlefield..."
"The smaller you get, the greater the risk is to the mission, and the greater the risk to the force."
"I think a zero option would be very problematic for the country of Afghanistan."
"With sequestration the Army would likely lose another 100,000 troops on top of the 72,000 cuts already planned."
"They will eventually resort to acts of terrorism, because those are easy to do, high payoff. Hard to prevent."