bureaucracy which has the fine motor skills of a dinosaur.
in some cases the gap between me and an action officer may be as high as 30 layers
I expect to continue to conduct training, advising, and assisting activities and joint counterterrorism operations.
If you cut the defense budget by 10 percent, which would be catastrophic in terms of force structure, that's $55 billion out of a $1.4 trill...
It is vitally important to protect the military modernization accounts.
And sometimes, they send people to spy on us. And they're our close allies.
Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.
That's the real world that we deal with.
Clearly, Pakistan is clearly a very strong ally of the United States in this.
the American people are going to become increasingly skeptical about this alliance if the United States has to bear three quarters of the bu...
this modernization project is, in my view, both from a security and a political standpoint, really important.