Robert Gates: “Our plea to Congress is to not leave the fate of this law to the courts.”

The Chinese have played a lot of clips of what happened at the Capitol on January 6. And in their propaganda... have talked about how we’re in no position to advise other countries on how to govern themselves.

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting

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.

He would be candid and honest, willing to tell the President straight from the shoulder what he needs to hear.