Robert Gates: “Congress, you all have made your intentions well-known in that regard.”

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.

I think we still have quite a bit of time, Chuck. I think there's still broad bipartisan support in the Congress for helping Ukraine.

I soon learned that the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months, not years, was to take control of the problem myself through special task forces and ad hoc processes.