I think there's a serious, serious danger here going forward indefinitely that those types of tours and the effects will accumulate.
One of my concerns is that there are military occupation specialties which are less stressful in some cases than being an infantry squad lea...
I think we have to begin to think about the end of the surge.
There has been no real political progress on the ground.
One of the issues I think that's been unintentionally prompted by the surge is I am told that the requirements for reset have had to be defe...
Can you give me an idea of the ongoing tempo for reset funding going forward?
These are magnificent young men and women that are doing the job of soldiering in the United States Army, but they can only take so much.
Do you see any progress on that front? If there is not progress on that front, how do we address the needs of reconstruction?
I have seen reports, news reports, that were broadcast by al Zawahiri, that basically suggested that, they see us as being trapped in Iraq.
Well, we're clearly not winning. And we're in danger of losing in Iraq, unless we take dramatic action, unless the president takes dramatic ...
A third of our brigades in the United States are reporting non-deployable because of personnel and equipment shortages.