Planning for peace is hard. We did not do it after we toppled Saddam Hussein, and we are still paying a price for that blindness today.

I understand that. Just shooting down a test missile in general. Experts on North Korea's war plans say that Kim Jong-un would likely respond to United States military action with massive escalation against South Korea, Japan, perhaps even…

I think we could make an important difference here.

The Air Force plans to produce LRSO cruise missiles in numbers roughly equal to the size of the current ALCM arsenal.

I just want to note for the record that the Trump administration in its budget blueprint calls for about a 29 percent cut to the State Department.

have the rules of engagement for U.S. forces operating in areas of hostilities changed in any way from the previous Administration?

Not every international problem is the same and the right tool is not always a military response.

If China was developing a new, stealthy long-range bomber in combination with a stealthy long-range nuclear-armed cruise missile, would the United States consider that development destabilizing?

I love the focus on data, you know, critically important here.

In fact, I have asked every combatant commander that same question, and to a person, they have all given me essentially the same answer.

You testified that the proposed new nuclear-armed cruise missile, the Long-Range Stand-Off weapon (LRSO), is not destabilizing because it replaces an existing weapon system.

making sure that we have every available C-5 seems pretty important to me, not to mention the fact that we have invested a lot of money to upgrade them, and now they are sitting on the ramp.