Robert Gates: “Retention and recruitment is at an all-time high in the history of the All-Volunteer Force.”

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

The Chinese have played a lot of clips of what happened at the Capitol on January 6. And in their propaganda... have talked about how we’re in no position to advise other countries on how to govern themselves.

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.

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.