Robert Gates said...

Their ambitions are to have a dominant role at least in the Middle East to continue their pattern of terrorism directly ...

There is no way to ignore efforts by rogue states such as North Korea and Iran to develop and deploy nuclear weapons or ...

Secretary Gates told President Bush that Guantanamo was a national security liability and advised him to close it down.

So there will be boots on the ground if there is to be any hope of success in the strategy.