Robert Gates: “We need to stay focused on the fight, we need to stay in this together.”

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.

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?'

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.