Robert Gates: “The U.S.-Russian relationship could be adversely affected for years to come.”

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.

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 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.

Senator Kaine will recall the reaction when we--when I shuttered Joint Forces Command in Norfolk.