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...

He would be candid and honest, willing to tell the President straight from the shoulder what he needs to hear.

Their ambitions are to have a dominant role at least in the Middle East to continue their pattern of terrorism directly ...

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with a militar...