Robert Gates: “Our concern, as I indicated yesterday, is principally in three areas: intelligence fusion, logistics and maintenance…”

I'm kind of pessimistic for the near term.

We want everything that's possible, and a lot of things that aren't possible, in a new system.

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.

Senator Kaine will recall the reaction when we--when I shuttered Joint Forces Command in Norfolk.