Administration Quote by Barack Obama

Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq.…

— John F. Kerry

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations…

— Nick Turse

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without…

— Pete Hegseth

Misguided policies put in place by the Obama Administration have weakened our military capabilities and reduced the number of our forces.

— Mike Johnson

Our military has been greatly weakened by a lot of bad decisions and other things.

— Donald Trump

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has…

— Joe Klein

Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding of the recent histories of the Afghan and Iraqi peoples…

— H. R. McMaster

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are…

— Jim Mattis

US forces have been increased [in Afghanistan ] from some 21,000 to about 31,000 over the past two years and a number of coalition…

— David Petraeus

The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to…

— Victor Davis Hanson

When the United States first went into Afghanistan in 2001, it devastated the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a matter of weeks using only…

— Erik Prince

An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

— Ellen Tauscher