Robert Gates said...

By continuing to repeat that the U.S. will not put boots on the ground, the President, in effect, traps himself.

An attack on Iran would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable. They would just bury the program deeper and make it more c...

in some cases the gap between me and an action officer may be as high as 30 layers

we've lost our ability to prioritize, to make hard decisions, to do tough analysis, to make trades.