There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war. Retiring an aircraft carrier more than a decade early isn't in the best interest of the nation at this time.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

The fundamental issue appears that the Defense Department believes it is not only legal but accepted practice to operate using slush funds that deceive the Congress, ... Indications from the IG report are that the practice is widespread, condoned and even encouraged up and down the levels of management within the DOD.

Covering this war is a perilous assignment for all journalists, but the gravest risk falls on those whose country is the battleground and whose lives are inextricable from the society.

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

We went to a zone defense and the guys came out and played it well. They came out with a lot of enthusiasm. They wanted to wrap up the conference at home.