Robert Gates: “Fundamentally reforming our export control system is necessary for national security.”

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.

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

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

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.