02/19/2025
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"We are always open to working with the Department of Defense to ensure that our warfighter has the tools they need."
"I think we're in a more perilous time than has ever been in my lifetime, maybe with the exception of the Cuban missile crisis."
"We need to begin deterring Russia against further aggression rather that assuring it that we seek to avoid escalation."
"The risk is increasing over time. And if we focus on the risk today at the expense of the higher levels of risk we are going to see, as China continues to modernize, we are going to have to be in a ve..."