Robert Gates: “There clearly were insufficient troops in Iraq after the initial invasion.”

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.

I think part of the problem is that at the end of the Cold War, we were affected by triumphalism or hubris, whatever you want to call it.

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.