A failure to recapitalize our at-sea deterrent on time would have devastating impacts.

I can remember talking to Vaclav Klaus at that time, and he said, now we are going to go ahead and do this. It is going to really anger Russia, but can we be sure that you are not going to pull the rug out from under us.

Some feel that we are already approaching the hollow force.

Sound strategy requires a balance of ends, ways and means.

Do you believe that our current counterterrorism strategy has kept pace with the increasingly globalized nature of al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist networks?

The fiscal year 2014 OCO budget request does not contain additional funds to address the fiscal year 2013 problems.

If Congress prohibits the proposed TRICARE fee changes and does not restore the budgeted savings in fiscal year 2014, the Department will likely be forced to make additional reductions to readiness and modernization accounts.

Wouldn't it be better to take that same top line and work within that so that the commanders would be in a position to make those adjustments?

I am concerned that this administration is losing the ability to accurately budget for OCO at the same time many core readiness needs for the Services are being migrated to the OCO from the base budget.

I called all five Service Chiefs, including the Guard, and asked them... if you could take that and operate within that and make the determinations as to where those cuts would be, would that be less devastating than if you just went ahead…

the United States requires a more geographically-distributed, operationally-resilient, and politically-sustainable posture that allows persistent presence and, if needed, power projection.

General Welsh, given the impacts of sequestration, what priority is the Air Force acquisition plans for the T-X program?