Robert Gates: “The Department does not currently track homosexual conduct discharges this way.”

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with a military capable of accomplishing the missions it's assigned to.

No more continuing resolutions.

I think part of the problem is that at the end of the Cold War, we were affected by triumphalism or hubris, whatever you want to call it.

Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.