Jim Cooper: “This is a trillion-dollar subject here, and we have got to get that right as well.”

It seems that USSTRATCOM no longer sees missile defense as a component of strategic deterrence.

Thank you, Chairman Cooper and Ranking Member Lamborn and the members of this committee, for your support of our mission to conduct operations in, from, and to space.

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.

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