Jim Cooper: “I am a budget hawk, and I hate to bring up the issue of sequestration, but that probably is, as Ms. McFarland pointed…”

It might even be what Admiral Richard calls a strategic breakout. So it is a truly alarming development.

I am worried about the partisan tone of your questions.

If I were the average person sitting back home watching this hearing, I think I would doubt that any of our Nation state adversaries were shaking in their boots.

I remember Hitler's aggression and what was known as war creep, and I can tell you what we are seeing here is war creep.