Robert Gates: “I think in effect doing a referendum of the service of the members of the armed forces on a policy matter is a very…”

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

I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.

The Chinese have played a lot of clips of what happened at the Capitol on January 6. And in their propaganda... have talked about how we’re in no position to advise other countries on how to govern themselves.

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.