Robert Gates: “I believe that air supremacy--in all its components--will be indispensable to maintaining American military strength…”

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.

Allies are a huge asset and in not understanding that I think is a real problem.

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.