Robert Gates: “I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.”

I soon learned that 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.

He's going to insist on occupying all four of the eastern provinces of the Donbas.

Putin believes it's his destiny to recreate the Russian empire.

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting