Robert Gates: “I would say that what we've gotten for a half billion dollars is an unpronounceable acronym.”

I'm kind of pessimistic for the near term.

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

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.

Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.