President’s Obama’s Remarks on the Defense Strategic Review
America's Global Interests and Defense Priorities
The United States of America is the greatest force for freedom and security that the world has ever known. And in no small measure, that’s because we’ve built the best-trained, best-led, best-equipped military in history ― and as commander in chief, I’m going to keep it that way. Indeed, all of us on this stage ― every single one of us ― have a profound responsibility to every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, and Coast Guardsman who puts their life on the line for America. We owe them a strategy with well-defined goals; to only send them into harm’s way when…