Robert Gates said...

the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months--not year...

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

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.

I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.