Chuck Hagel: “Not since the distinguished service of General George Marshall has a soldier-statesman come to this position with…”

This is so unpredictable. And we've never seen anything quite like this in our lifetime, so there is no playbook here.

Our nuclear deterrent plays a critical role in assuring U.S. national security.

There is going to be some severe reckoning and review, and a top-down, break it all down and asking themselves, who are we? What do we believe in?

It is a measurement. But I don't think it is the measurement. I mean, I was in a war with a lot of body counts every day. We lost everyone.