Robert Gates said...

My staff and I have learned that it was nearly impossible to get accurate information and answers to questions such as, ...

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

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...

He hasn't gotten a single national security decision right in the last four decades.