Robert Gates: “The only way a law can change is if Congress acts or if the courts overturn it.”

I think it would be a very heavy political lift for the president to say he's going to cut off military supplies to Israel unless they stop in Gaza.

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with a military capable of accomplishing the missions it's assigned to.

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