Defense Reform Quotes

Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

Our Defense Department is the best in the world at winning wars and protecting the country. However on basic management, and fiscal activities, their grade would be a D…. The Pentagon is the last obstacle we have to overcome in order to audit the Defense Department. They are unauditable today.

President Trump has made rebuilding our military strength one of his top priorities. More money is certainly required, but so is reform of the Pentagon and how it does business.

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

I am confident that President Trump's administration is capable of making the Pentagon run at maximum efficiency and enacting procurement reforms that will get weapons and assets to our warfighters more quickly and efficiently.

Modernizing the U.S. Navy is a key component of rebuilding our military.

Senior military officers will not accept defense reform unless it is forced upon them.

We must have a Secretary of Defense who will manage, and not be managed, by the Pentagon.

And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization.

To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.

We need to transform our military forces by focusing on force posture, not force structure.

I would also recommend that the Marine Corps be merged in the artillery or infantry, as the best mode of curing the many defects in its organization.

NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.