Robert Gates: “this modernization project is, in my view, both from a security and a political standpoint, really important.”

Allies are a huge asset and in not understanding that I think is a real problem.

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.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.

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.