JOHN M. McHUGH: “With defense budgets shrinking, it's important to evaluate if our current Active Component and Reserve Component force…”

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.

No Federal obligation is more important than protecting national security.

We must be seen as a credible ally and a dangerous enemy.