Martin Dempsey: “If we have fewer forces forward, we will be less deterrent and less reassuring to our allies.”

My view at this point is that this coalition is the appropriate way forward. I believe that will prove true. But if it fails to be true, and if there are threats to the United States then, I, of course, would go back to the president and…

An energy independent and net exporter of energy as a nation has the potential to change the security environment around the world.

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.

As we look at our strategies for the future I think we have got to pay more and particular attention to energy as an instrument of national power, and I think that has to be factored in to the equation here.