Martin Dempsey: “Yes, I am deeply concerned. Right now, Senator, we are consuming readiness. We are using it. We are not producing it.”

There are five or six or seven places you can find money in a budget. They have looked. There is nothing left under the mattress.

Guantanamo does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does.

Funding lower than President's budget 2016 and lacking the flexibility to make the internal reforms that we believe we need to make will put us in a position where we will have to change our national security strategy.

I have said before and I believe it today as well that today's readiness problem is tomorrow's retention problem.