"So if we are worried about a near-term deterrence crisis, right, if we think is the sort of window of maximum danger in the 2020s, and we don't know, admittedly, we don't know what lurks in the mind and heart of Xi Jinping."
"I think that would be like very helpful."
"At some level, like the numbers do matter, right."
"Well, I'm cautiously optimistic we can fix ITAR in this Congress."
"Now it's 2 months later--that would be 10 percent of the way through the 18-month timeline--and this subcommittee, the Armed Services Committee more broadly, and industry, I would argue, including sma..."
"In my opinion, the only thing better than producing mass quantities of long-range precision fires ideally with advanced energetics inside of them is doing so in concert with our closest allies, partic..."
"The hearing really seeks to answer two fundamental questions: What is Replicator and can it work, how can it work?"
"The big takeaway--we examined a 2028 Taiwan scenario--was that as difficult as these questions of how to selectively decouple..."
"Our view has been to go above and beyond on removing China from the supply chain."
"to avoid a war we have to adopt a war footing."
"George Washington at one time said to be prepared for war is the most effectual way to preserve peace."