James M. Talent: “The warrior ethos is not a luxury, it is essential when you have a military.”

More than ever, the U.S. military must fully engage the entirety of American society, not only to expand the military's access to talent, but to also reconnect the Nation to its military.

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…

What we were hearing back is a greater and greater level of frustration that the system doesn't seem to understand what they're dealing with.

I could not agree more with what Michele was saying about we need a whole-of-government approach to these competitions.