The current budget supports the 175,000 force at moderate risk.

Should we also be counting those ships in an extended 3- to 4-year overhaul as a combat readily deployable ship?

I am concerned that the retreating tide of U.S. leadership and the defense capability will encourage Kim Jong-un to be more aggressive.

The polling actually is 80 percent supporting of the Afghan National Army.

the President's naive vision of the world without nuclear weapons.

I blame Secretary Rumsfeld for that program on the Crusader.

The world is getting more dangerous, and the Pacific is no exception.

I think that the Air Force request divests the entire 283-aircraft A-10 fleet.

What action will the Navy take to avoid breaking their 20-ship block buy construction contract?

Is it in the Navy's best interest to continue to pay for biofuel refineries which it will never own?

It is not realistic to expect effective oversight over such a lengthy span of time.

We now are working with four companies that will--that are obligated to provide us with 163 million gallons of biofuel at 2016 at less than $3.50 a gallon.