"we're at our lowest point at 2027, when they're at the highest point."
"I want to overmatch. I want to win, in the next 5 years."
"In my opinion that is a decade and a half too late and insufficient considering the clear overmatch in capacity the Chinese will have in the Pacific."
"We have a system that's 25 years in the making and still not sustained and ready."
"The concerns here are bipartisan and the concerns here are longstanding."
"The Chinese Communist Party will believe they have overmatch within the next 5 to 7 years."
"the decision to close Red Hill has absolutely forced and I think accelerated the larger conversation about operational requirements for fuel in the region"
"our ability to confront future adversaries absolutely and fundamentally depends on sealift, airlift, and ground logistics"
"we have to really start taking meaningful actions so that surge and sustainment sealift is ready to deliver"
"I think what we are asking is if this doesn't work, we plow ahead and it doesn't work--as you hope it will particularly with new IT systems being developed as well, we know how government IT goes--wha..."
"I think we need to recognize, and we need to do so in a very clear-eyed way, that deterrence did fail, the fact that we have cities that are now leveled."