Robert Gates said...

There's absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without...

I expect to continue to conduct training, advising, and assisting activities and joint counterterrorism operations.

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting

If you cut the defense budget by 10 percent, which would be catastrophic in terms of force structure, that's $55 billion...