Andrew P. Hunter: “And the Kurdish mothers who died there by poison gas, with their babies in their arms, those were representations of…”

I think what today's hearing and what this situation and NATO's eastern flank highlights is the fact that we don't have a tremendous amount of time to wait around for the next great Army to show up in 10 to 15 to 20 years.

Advanced technologies such as UAVs and EW can serve as important force multipliers that improve the effectiveness of current U.S.-European force posture but are by themselves insufficient in tipping the balance.

As the Chief has said, you know, we have to accelerate, change, or lose.

The government needs to be very discriminating about how it approaches and how it invests its R&D dollars.