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1 hour ago — When the feel-good part of a trip is the visit to Iraq, you know you're on an interesting journey. After travelling to Baghdad yesterday to mark the formal end of the US's military mission in that country, US defence secretary...
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August 19, 2010 — From The Wall Street Journal : Lawmakers worried about potential job losses in their districts have rallied against the closure of a military command in Virginia, presenting Secretary of Defense Robert...
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August 17, 2010 — I fully agree with your assessment that former Senator Chuck Hagel is the best choice to step into the role of Secretary of Defense. He has remained active since he left the Senate two years ago, including his work as Jim Jones’s...
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August 17, 2010 — Via Foreign Policy : Late in 2007, a year into his tenure as George W. Bush's secretary of defense and just over a year before the end of Bush's second term as president, I asked Robert...
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August 16, 2010 — Another very interesting nugget from the Foreign Policy profile of Defense Secretary Robert Gates: Gates's most fateful influence may have come in the deliberations over the war in Afghanistan. Early in...
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August 16, 2010 — Defense Secretary Robert Gates makes an unlikely progressive hero. A holdover from the Bush administration, Gates is an ex-spy and button-down conservative who keeps a portrait...
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August 16, 2010 — Set your countdown clocks to 2011, when Robert Gates, Defense Secretary to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, plans to step down. "It would be a mistake to wait until January 2012," he tells Foreign Policy,...
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August 16, 2010 — I first saw this reported by Ben Smith for Politico.com and was a bit surprised. Robert Gates is the current Secretary of Defense for the Obama Administration, and had been for...
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August 16, 2010 — Defense Secretary Robert Gates is waxing poetic about historical tenure serving at the Pentagon, and told Foreign Policy magazine he will retire sometime next year. "I think...
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August 16, 2010 — by David Gura Paul J. Richards / AFP Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told 'Foreign Policy' magazine he plans to step down in 2011. In an interview with Foreign Policy...
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August 16, 2010 — Fareed Zakaria sings the praises of Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ efforts to streamline the Pentagon budget: Can anyone seriously question Gates’s ideas on the merits? He has...
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August 16, 2010 — US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the US will definitely start reducing the number of its soldiers in Afghanistan next July. On Sunday, the commander of Nato forces in...
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August 15, 2010 — Wow are they jumping ship during this so called “recovery” summer aren’t they? Though Defense Secretary Robert Gates has nothing to do with domestic economics, he follows...