Robert Gates: “My concern is, we don't have an overriding strategy on the part of the United States in this complex challenge over the…”

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

I'm kind of pessimistic for the near term.

There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our industrial-military industrial capabilities.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.