Robert Gates: “we are opposed to the independence of Taiwan.”

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.

There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our industrial-military industrial capabilities.

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.