I would just like your thoughts on how that looks now from the field.
Certainly we cannot avoid--or should we avoid budgetary considerations? We all have to live within budgets.
The retention is so important because if we could move the average retention out a year, that would be a significant sav...
I would agree with them that they do need more icebreaker, more capacity and capability out there.
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...