Political Quotes

“Madam President, our Nation exists today in a time of relative peace, with limited and manageable active hostilities threatening U.S. national security. On the horizon, the United States faces a militarily ambitious and formidable but not yet insurmountable opponent in China and in its quest for regional dominance in the Pacific. Yet in the face of this new age of great power competition, U.S. grand strategy continues to operate with outdated goals and across all regions of the globe, lacking prioritization and desperately needing scale. After the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the corresponding diplomatic, military, and humanitarian disaster, one would think the instinct would be to jettison decades of military-industrial groupthink. One would think the American people, and certainly our men and women in uniform, deserve a thorough, exhaustive review of what is working and the huge swaths of what is failing in our military and defense strategy, infrastructure, and planning. One would think that Congress would reclaim powers assigned to it by the Constitution to make serious reforms to protect the security and prosperity of the United States. One would think we would reform our procurement process and trim the bloated, perversely incentivized military-industrial complex. One would think we would prioritize resources toward the largest and most imminently looming threats to U.S. national security.…”