Robert Gates actually said...

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with a military capable of accompl...

the real problem with United States policy in the Middle East is the lack of a clear strategy.

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.

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 contr...