Robert Gates: “I strongly support USAID's continued assistance to the Afghan Government to build effective governance structures and…”

My staff and I have learned that it was nearly impossible to get accurate information and answers to questions such as, 'How much money did you spend?' and, 'How many people do you have?'

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

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.

I think part of the problem is that at the end of the Cold War, we were affected by triumphalism or hubris, whatever you want to call it.