Adam Smith actually said...

We cannot succeed in the current national security environment unless we build partner capacity.

I think every military commander's first instinct is to say: Give me another 30,000 troops, and I can save the situation.

Building up the level of cooperation between the State Department and the Department of Defense is very important.

My view is we are in Afghanistan today for the same reason we were in Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, to prevent it from becoming a safe ha...