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U.S. Secretary Robert Gates

Former Defense Secretary Gates Betrays Own Views and Obama’s Trust in Memoirs

Thursday, January 9, 2014 at 12:18 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

All of Washington was atwitter yesterday over excerpts the New York Times and Washington Post published from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s forthcoming book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War. Significantly, President George W. Bush nominated Gates in 2006 and President Obama retained him until he retired in 2011, evidently, as a thoroughly dismayed… Read more.

U.S. Sec of Defense blasts incompetent, free-loading Europeans

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 5:48 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates amused the American military and political establishments a few months ago by declaring in a speech at West Point that any president who sends soldiers to fight another land war in the Middle East should have his head examined. Well, he shocked the daylights out of the European military and political establishments… Read more.