Robert Gates: “military efforts to capture or kill terrorists are likely to be subordinate to measures to promote local participation…”

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

This is a Department that principally plans for war. It is not organized to wage war, and that is what I am trying to fix.

I'm always hesitant to get Congress involved in a problem, because you usually end up with a solution you don't like. But the problem that the conferences, the athletic conferences, are facing now, they're all multi-state conferences. And…

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