Robert Gates: “I believe we are making some progress, but it is slower and harder than we anticipated.”

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.

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.

I'm kind of pessimistic for the near term.

No more continuing resolutions.