New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte knows her stuff on defense issues

From “What’s marriage?” to “Where’s Snowden,” the nation was buzzing with Washington-based stories last week. But Washington had little to say about national defense.

When the Army announced it would eliminate 10 combat brigades, the response was crickets. When military officials acknowledged they had insufficient forces in place to respond to the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, more crickets. Paula Dean got more media attention than slashing America’s defenses.