Hagel Last Week: ‘U.S. Military Capability Is Being Threatened’

Hagel: ‘U.S. Military Capability is Being Threatened’ (Washington Free Beacon)

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told Charlie Rose that U.S. military capability is “being threatened,” echoing statements from his speech at the Reagan Library on Saturday.

Hagel said the capacity of the U.S. military to effectively respond to global crises has been “taken for granted” since the end of World War II.

“I am worried about it, I am concerned about it, Chairman Dempsey is, the chiefs are, every leader of this institution. Now today, right now, as we sit here, we still are the most dominant, most powerful, most effective country, economy and military in the world, There’s no one close to us right now,” Hagel told Rose during a PBS interview aired Wednesday.