Robert Gates: “And the reality is that because of our inability and the inability frankly of our allies to put enough troops into…”

I soon learned that the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months, not years, was to take control of the problem myself through special task forces and ad hoc processes.

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

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.

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