Admiral Michael Mullen: “As long as American forces keep killing Afghan civilians, the United States is not going to win this war.”

the number one national security threat facing our country was Congress' inability to spend within its means.

To achieve operational energy reductions, the Department tripled investment in energy security technology over the last 4 years, from $400 million to $1.2 billion.

The likelihood that NATO could respond in a situation like that was absolutely zero.

The line of questioning approached here for those of us in the military that we would consider for a second not doing anything we possibly could just stirs us to our bones because that's not who we are. We don't leave anybody behind.