Jack Reed

We cannot assume that potential adversaries will allow us free rein in this area in the future.

Withdrawing or renegotiating the INF treaty with Russia may bring marginal benefits in the PACOM AOR but could have devastating effects for the EUCOM and CENTCOM AORs.

The PLA Rocket Force (PLARF) controls the largest and most diverse missile force in the world, with an inventory of more than 2,000 ballistic and cruise missiles.

Thank you, Admiral, and make sure you thank the men and women under your command.

Mr. Chairman, I concur.

We do have a successful example of Timor-Leste and Australia of working together.

I think we have to pursue aggressively this information operation.

The new administration has an important opportunity to chart a different and better course.

This committee has grown increasingly concerned about the erosion of America's conventional military overmatch.

We must not and will not bargain over our alliances or over fundamental principles of the rules-based order.

If we are serious about the drug epidemic in this country, we need to adequately fund not only fund our crucial military effort in SOUTHCOM, but also Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DEA, the Coast Guard, the FDA, and all the other…

It is an escalator to catastrophe in my view.

It is escalate to win, which forces us to escalate to stop them from winning.

One of the disconcerting comments that the Russians continue to make is that they have a strategy now of escalate to deescalate with nuclear weapons.

The threat environment today is considerably different. The most significant developments are Russia's nuclear modernization and its bellicose threats about its nuclear capability and the significant advancements made by North Korea in its…

Russia and the United States are no longer adversaries, and prospects for military confrontation have declined dramatically.

We are thankful to Congress for its funding of our activities there.

If they are able to subvert Ukraine, then that will send shock waves throughout Europe.

I think I can safely say that we are really not organized to deal with it at this point.

I am concerned, however, about the mixed signals that the current administration seems to be sending regarding the United States commitment to NATO and the willingness to cut a deal with Russia.

The NATO alliance remains strong and is grounded in a shared vision of an integrated and stable Europe rooted in respect for sovereignty and political and economic freedom.

The transatlantic relationship is a cornerstone of U.S. national security and the international order established at the end of World War II.

I simply want to thank you, gentlemen, for your service and for your testimony today.

General Dunford has described the strategy as a 'political-military plan' and a 'whole-of-government approach' requiring important contributions from other non-DOD departments and agencies, most notably the State Department.

Russia's continued support for the Assad regime fuels the country's civil war, enables the abuse and killing of the Syrian population, and allows ISIS to exploit the resulting instability for its own gains.