Robert Gates: “Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.”

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

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.

This is basically the responsibility of the president to educate people about why this is necessary.

Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.