Robert Gates: “I fully support the closure of detention facilities at Guantanamo.”

No more continuing resolutions.

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.

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.