Robert Gates: “Our civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too…”

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.

Senator Kaine will recall the reaction when we--when I shuttered Joint Forces Command in Norfolk.

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

I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.