Robert Gates said...

we've lost our ability to prioritize, to make hard decisions, to do tough analysis, to make trades.

it's a terrible way to budget. I mean, it is a gimmick.

This is a Department that principally plans for war. It is not organized to wage war, and that is what I am trying to fi...

There's absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without...