Robert Gates: “Russia's initial reaction to the new system was positive.”

We want everything that's possible, and a lot of things that aren't possible, in a new system.

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with a military capable of accomplishing the missions it's assigned to.

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

I think part of the problem is that at the end of the Cold War, we were affected by triumphalism or hubris, whatever you want to call it.