Robert Gates: “I am a strong proponent of contacts with the Chinese military for that kind of a dialogue.”

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.

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

He would be candid and honest, willing to tell the President straight from the shoulder what he needs to hear.

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.