Robert Gates said...

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

Well, fundamentally, and I'm not kidding, it can be found within the two square miles that encompass the Capitol buildin...

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

This is a Department that principally plans for war. It is not organized to wage war, and that is what I am trying to fi...