Posts Tagged ‘Robert Gates’

Congress Working To Stop The Pentagon’s Cost Saving Drive


Pentagon Cost-Saving Drive Comes Under Fire — 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 Gates with a big test of his sweeping effort to hold down military spending.

Earlier this month, Mr.

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Hillary Clinton The Next Secretary Of Defense?


U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton look out over North Korea from Observation Point Ouellette during a tour from the demilitarized zone in South Korea, July 21, 2010.

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U.S. Secretary Of Defense Gates Plans To Retire At The End Of 2011



Robert Gates Says He’ll Leave Pentagon By End Of 2011 — CBS News

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says that he may leave his job possibly as early as January but certainly by the end of 2011, Foreign Policy Magazine reports.

“It would be a mistake to wait until January 2012,” Gates said in an interview.

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Why Fix The U.S. Marines When they Are Not Broken? — A Commentary


The Few. The Proud. The New Marines? — Andrea Stone, AOL News

WASHINGTON (Aug. 13) — Declaring “the maritime soul of the Marine Corps” is at stake, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a review of the seaborne service that since 9/11 has functioned more like a “second land army.”

In a speech in San Francisco, Gates spoke of “anxiety” over the future role of the service after nearly a decade of fighting on land in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Pentagon Sees Budget Uncertainties Ahead


From Defense News/AFP:

By promising to drastically slash spending, the Pentagon hopes to convince the U.S. Congress not to reduce its colossal budget.

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