Robert Gates: “The truth of the matter is, it has been difficult for the -- particularly for the Army to meet my policy decision with…”

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

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

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.

I think it would be a very heavy political lift for the president to say he's going to cut off military supplies to Israel unless they stop in Gaza.