Robert Gates: “There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our…”

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'm kind of pessimistic for the near term.

I soon learned that 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.

No more continuing resolutions.