Robert Gates: “I am committed to modernizing and sustaining the GMD system as the Department defends the United States against…”

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with a military capable of accomplishing the missions it's assigned to.

Senator Kaine will recall the reaction when we--when I shuttered Joint Forces Command in Norfolk.