I think artificial intelligence will likely change the character of warfare, and I believe whoever masters it first will dominate on the battlefield for many, many, many years.

It is an honor of a lifetime to be appointed secretary of defense and to lead the greatest military in history.

Our adversaries must see diplomacy as their best option because war with the United States will force them to bear enormous costs.

Together, we will remain the most ready and capable military force in the world, which is what our nation expects and deserves.

I'm not hugging the Guantanamo location, but our right to hold people under the laws of war as enemy combatants, I think, is unarguable, and we need to stand up for that.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.