Martin Dempsey: “we are putting our military on a path where the force is so degraded and so unready that it would be immoral to use…”

We owe them a little certainty in their lives.

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.

the Iraq war remains one of the greatest United States foreign policy mistakes of the last century

it pains me to hear the characterization of balancing the budget on the backs of our service men and women.