In your hard power options, you need additional materiel.

We need to publicly out this behavior. We need to have a public discourse on this.

Are we giving up options that were previously available to us to exercise before we reach an armed conflict by a budget that is substantially cutting the State Department and other agencies of soft power, such as USAID?

Do you think that the existing sanctions are enough to deter further Russian aggression in Ukraine and Syria?

The inherent flexibility of amphibious ships and the Navy-Marine Corps team is in high demand.

Secretary Mattis and General Dunford, in your testimony, you both referred to some conventional forces with specialized missions or increased capabilities as force multipliers for special operations forces.

space is no longer a neutral domain.

last year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) expressed my concern and the concern of this committee that our Major Range and Test Facility Bases are unable to maintain pace technologically with our advanced fifth and sixth…

We need to acclimatize ourselves to the idea that we are, in many ways, back into a time frame of disinformation.

That is critical infrastructure.

In the event of a large-scale emergency or crisis, we follow standard procedures within the Department of Defense to request the forces needed to respond once we are directed to do so.

the Navy has long held the belief that strategic dispersal of capital ships--particularly the aircraft carrier--is important.