Time is running out for the Defense Department, according to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. As U.S. and coalition forces gear up for what promises to be a difficult and bloody year ahead in Afghanistan, this week Gates appealed to lawmakers to deliver a $200 million wartime funding bill to the White House. "I am becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of progress on the supplemental," he told members of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee during a June 16 hearing. Prior...
