Robert Gates said...

This is a Department that principally plans for war. It is not organized to wage war, and that is what I am trying to fi...

the way the things ought to operate is that if there is a sense on the Hill, a majority view, that the budget needs to b...

My staff and I have learned that it was nearly impossible to get accurate information and answers to questions such as, ...

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting