Angus King actually said...

we are doing these drawdowns based upon decisions about budgets made in 2011 before ISIS, before Syria, before North Korea nuclear, before t...

The largest question before this committee is, are we recruiting and retaining the people that we need?

Certainly we cannot avoid--or should we avoid budgetary considerations? We all have to live within budgets.

I think your analysis is exactly right. Almost all wars in history are started from a miscalculation.