if we are going to be able to transition our troops home we need to make sure that there is a reliable security force left behind
Let me tell you, everywhere in the budget, every little piece of it, the people who advocate for that piece of it have an outstanding argume...
I think it is one of the most important challenges that we face on the Armed Services Committee and certainly in our national security Depar...
if we feel very, very strongly that those proposed cuts are going to do irreparable harm to our national security strategy, that they should...
I look forward to this discussion. I think it is the most important thing we are doing right now because it will form our national security ...
If there is one iron law of American history, it is that those cuts have made future wars more likely.
After World War II, our Armed Forces shrank from 12 million men in 1945 to 1.4 million in 1950.
if we face a trillion dollars in cuts, if we face the loss of 30 percent of our defense budget over the next decade, we are not going to hav...
I think it is very important that we do that, that we make it clear the impact that these cuts will have on our ability to protect this Nati...
So if you don't deal with those other issues, as I have said repeatedly, you wind up being the person last in line at a buffet where the foo...
After World War I, our Armed Forces shrank from 2.9 million men to 250,000 in 1928.