It means that if we had to face another contingency, that the risk involved would be significant in the sense it would take longer in order to complete and also involve more risk in terms of perhaps to our forces itself.
William Cohen explains the implications of General Pace's assessment of military readiness and risk.
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I think we would have because the first thing we need to do is number one, is the balloon a military or security threat? But number two, can we get information out of it before we destroy it? We don't know.
Senator Tester is absolutely correct. He is approaching it the right way. Let's get some real answers here.
What this senator is doing is he is imposing his will to prevent the leaders from progressing, meaning he's weakening our readiness.
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