National Security
Protecting the homeland
As an Iraq War veteran and eleven-year member of the Reserves, Cal understands the importance of a robust national security program to the peace and security of our country. He recognizes that in order to meet the challenges of the 21st Century, we must adopt a new doctrine that brings to bear the full power of the United States– including the so-called “soft” powers of moral, legal, economic, diplomatic and cultural influence.
To ensure our national security, we must:
1. Clearly define and pursue our national security interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by fully implementing counterinsurgency strategy, seizing momentum, protecting the population, allowing no geographic safe-haven for Al Qaeda, building Afghani capacity to secure itself, and turning over the security mission as soon as possible.
2. Develop a specialized civilian corps to complement the uniformed services and provide logistics, civil governance, public works, information technology, and linguist services. This corps must operate under the blanket of U.S. law under a unified chain of command, in place of private contractors.
3. Fund, train, and equip the best fighting force, including following through on increases in end-strength, ending “stop-loss”, and retooling and re-setting our Reserves and National Guard, which have been strained by two concurrent wars in the Middle East.
4. Conclude the Mission in Iraq. With Honor. Period.
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