Robert Gates: “Let's not forget about contract monitors, logistical experts, and so on, to make sure that we're doing this right.”

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

This is basically the responsibility of the president to educate people about why this is necessary.

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.

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