Trump touts his national security plan

U.S. Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday said he would make America's cyber and defense programs "the best in the world" while speaking to a group of retired military officials. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE, DONALD TRUMP <<< "I will make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense and in every other way. By the way, every other way... we've rarely needed it more than we do right now. As a deterrent against attacks on our critical resources the United States must possess and has to, the unquestioned capacity to launch crippling cyber counter attacks. And I mean crippling, crippling. This is the warfare of the future." "So I just I just want to say that we are going to hit ISIS hard and I mean really hard, but I do think this - the American public doesn't have to know the date and hour and second that we're going to attack. And from what side we're going to attack, we're going to attack from the eastern quadrant, and it'll take place on a certain day at a certain hour... we don't need it. They just want to see victory. We don't have victory. I mean we're dropping our, we're dropping things all over the place. Who knows what they're hitting? Who knows how many people are being killed? And who knows if they're the right people?" 

 Trump's appearance comes in the wake of a report from the New York Times that Trump reported a 916 million USD loss on his 1995 federal income tax return, a move that may have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years.