After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
I don't engage in hypotheticals. - Leon Panetta
I don't engage in hypotheticals.
- Leon Panetta
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time. - Leon Panetta
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now en… - Leon Panetta
We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now en…
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no mi… - Leon Panetta
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no mi…
The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control t… - Leon Panetta
The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control t…
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that we… - Leon Panetta
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that we…
The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will. - Leon Panetta
The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.
When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world. - Leon Panetta
When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack. - Leon Panetta
The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.
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