Today's security environment is dramatically different from the last 25 years, requiring new ways of investing and operating.
I'm grateful that our country's leaders were able to come together last fall to avert that dismal future
I have not heard that in our discussions. I'll take that back and add it.
We're challenging our NATO partners and working with them to develop what I've called a new playbook for NATO.
Obviously, I'm the Secretary of Defense, so I care very deeply about the defense budget.
We can't have that, so we're going to need additional funding.
The TPP is as important to me as another aircraft carrier.
DOD must now prepare for and seek to prevent the possibility of a conflict that extends into space, and we are.
Our view is that everybody ought to resolve those peacefully and not militarize those features.
We don't want a draft . . . We don't want people chosen for us. We want to pick people. That's what the All-Volunteer Force is all about.
Modernization is a key part of restoring readiness.