Dick Lugar: “I believe that other strategic questions... are the crucial determinants of success, not the numbers of troops.”

I join you in welcoming back Secretary Burns and Tom Nides, both who are good friends of the committee.

I join the chairman in thanking John McCain for his testimony, his courage, his eloquence, and his mention of those on our side of the aisle who have historically fought for the disabled. That is a very important fact today, and his…

even if the INF Treaty finally falls by the wayside, something else is going to follow that is more comprehensive and of greater safety to more countries.

Well, in addition to the comments that have been made about better cohesion with our European allies, it seems to me we need to be thinking more about missile defense than about really the ways in which we negate the value of these…