James M. Talent: “I want to say, as I listened when I was in the chair, I appreciated his eloquence on behalf of the bill. ... I heard him…”

The warrior ethos is not a luxury, it is essential when you have a military.

We fear our military lacks the capability to attract, use, and keep the unconventional, technical, and cutting-edge talents and skills that it needs to meet future threats and new realities.

But it is really important because the impact of the next 8 to 10 years, particularly in that theater, if they are able--I don't have to tell you all--to operationalize hypersonics, we have trouble because our missile defenses go out the…

I think success means protecting the American homeland, the territorial integrity of allies, the economy, from attacks.