Robert Gates: “We are very concerned, Mr. Chairman. The growing capability of the Chinese with anti-ship cruise and ballistic missiles…”

This is basically the responsibility of the president to educate people about why this is necessary.

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.

No more continuing resolutions.

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.