[Olog-hai]

Another bluff to be called by our enemies?

[17th Miss Regt]

What in the he** is a “ballistic missile destroyer”?

[andyk]

in the 21st century this will not stand, you cannot go around the world and redefine boundaries and violate territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations by force, coercion and intimidation whether it’s in small islands in the Pacific or large nations in Europe.

Or what, Hagel? Russia does it. So shut up.

[Zhang Fei]

Another bluff to be called by our enemies?

It's not really a bluff when you have the biggest and most advanced equipment inventory in the world. It's nations like Russia that are playing with a weak hand and basically bluffing. It's not like Obama has to exert himself to order the Navy or the Air Force into battle. By any measure, he's got a straight flush. The only question is whether he wants to be in the game.

[BenLurkin]

Good thing we’re building up the size of our navy.

/s

[Huskrrrr]

OK folks here is a chilling thought. How long before we see a USS Obama?

[familyop]

The way China sees it, China has scores to settle (Opium Wars, conned out of resources by empires, etc.). China sees the Yellow River flowing out to the sea, then the ocean and the world.

[hinckley buzzard]

Hagel, like his anti-military master, should know by now what any rough and tumble teenager knows, that talk is cheap.

Warning rivals about "the twenty-first century" way of doing things will not replace the effective projection of force around the world. The big stick beats the big mouth every time and only the most supine moral coward would think otherwise.