Robert Gates: “Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with the…”

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

I'm kind of pessimistic for the near term.

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.

There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our industrial-military industrial capabilities.