There Has To Be A Reason And

(the) Chain Of Command Has Failed Over The Years, Obviously, For A Lot Of Reasons.

I'm The First Secretary Of Defense That's Had To Deal With Sequestration. I've Prepared Two Budgets That Deal With Sequestration. And You Bring The Chiefs Together, The Leadership Of This Enterprise Together, To Work Through, How Do We Then Take These Cuts? Where Do We Apply Those Cuts? Readiness Is The First Thing That Suffers.

It's Critically Important That We Have Governments To Work With, That We Have Entities To Work With. President Hadi Has Been A Good Partner In That, And We Would Hope That The Next Set Of Leaders That Govern Yemen Will Also Take The Same Approach To Cooperation With The United States.

You Can Have All The Capabilities; If You Don't Have The Quality People, You Don't Have Much.

Iraq Was A War Of Choice, Like Vietnam.