Deborah Lee James: “The era in which the United States could project military power without challenge has ended.”

We believe we need more. And that is why we are urging the approval of these higher levels.

I totally agree, Senator, that sequestration was a bad deal with the uncertainty of it, the actions that the military was forced to take.

We cannot get our job done without our Guard and Reserve.

We made assumptions that we wouldn't be using Army forces in Europe the way we used to, we made assumptions that we wouldn't go back into Iraq--and here we are back in Iraq, here we are worried about Russia again.