JOHN M. McHUGH: “No Federal obligation is more important than protecting national security.”

We need to stop talking and start acting. We need wisdom, not words. We need results, not rhetoric.

As Russian-backed forces rolled into Ukraine, annexed Crimea, and threatened regional stability, our soldiers rapidly deployed to Eastern Europe in a demonstration of U.S. commitment and resolve.

The worst the thing that we can do is ask the men and women serving in our Army to perform a task that we do not equip and train them to do.

We now face fiscal year 2016 defense spending cap insufficient for operation in an unsustainable global security environment.