America's Civilian Institutions Of Diplomacy And Development

The Reality Is, The United States Has Global Interests. Our Defense Budget Is About The Same As The Defense Budgets Or Military Budgets Of Every Other Country In The World Put Together.

I Think That Vladimir Putin Is Certainly Getting A Lot Of Publicity For What The Russians Are Doing. And I'm Not Sure That's Unwelcome To Him. I Think This Is A Guy Who Saw The U.s. Basically Come Out Against Him In His Reelection Campaign In 2012. He Saw The U.s. Being Behind All Of The Color Revolutions In Eastern Europe And In Georgia And Ukraine And So On. So His View Is The West Has Been Interfering In His Politics For Years.

What I Know Concerns Me. What I Don't Know Concerns Me Even More. What People Aren't Telling Me Worries Me The Most.

Well, I've Ruffled A Few Feathers At All The Institutions I've Led. But I Think That's Part Of Leadership.

I've Been Very Sensitive For A Long Time To The Repeated Pattern, During Economic Hard Times Or After A War, Of The United States' Essentially Unilaterally Disarming.