I think we need to balance the things we ask of our services to do and especially in uncertain times like we have today.
Certainly we cannot avoid--or should we avoid budgetary considerations? We all have to live within budgets.
It may be a source of livelihood, but it's a source of death up here.
The budget control caps were set in 2011.
Here we are, trying to fit the defense posture of this country, subsequent to all those events, within caps that were es...
we're talking about reducing end strength and developing a situation where it's going to be very difficult to respond to...
I think your analysis is exactly right. Almost all wars in history are started from a miscalculation.
The best way to do that paradoxically is to prepare for war.
The most successful foreign policy initiative in terms of peacekeeping has been our deterrent.
There is a danger, particularly I am concerned, as is Senator Kaine, that we have ceded our congressional power over war...
I think we are facing a more diverse and serious threat environment than we have faced in any of our adult lives.