Robert Gates: “President Obama has made it clear that the Afghanistan theater should be our top overseas military priority.”

No more continuing resolutions.

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.

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.

My concern is, we don't have an overriding strategy on the part of the United States in this complex challenge over the next 20 to 30 years.