Operational UpdateU.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates receives an operational update on the Ramadi area from U.S. Army Col.
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After Spending $1 Trillion On ‘Base’ Non-War Spending, Why Do We Have Nothing To Show For It? (A Commentary)
Posted by War News Updates Editor on September 1st, 2010
Operational UpdateU.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates receives an operational update on the Ramadi area from U.S. Army Col.
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Comments OffHillary Clinton The Next Secretary Of Defense?
Posted by War News Updates Editor on August 17th, 2010
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. Posted in World News Tags: Cherie, Clintons, Defense Secretary, Demilitarized Zone, Election Year, Foreign Policy Magazine, Future Combat Systems, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Intriguing Possibility, Media Buzz, North Korea, Obama, Observation Point, Ouellette, President George W Bush, Robert Gates, Secretary Of Defense, Secretary Robert, South Korea Comments OffU.S. Secretary Of Defense Gates Plans To Retire At The End Of 2011
Posted by War News Updates Editor on August 16th, 2010
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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Posted by War News Updates Editor on August 15th, 2010
The Few. The Proud. The New Marines? — Andrea Stone, AOL NewsWASHINGTON (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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President Obama Supports "Ground Zero" Mosque
WASHINGTON — President Obama delivered a strong defense on Friday night of a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, using a White House dinner celebrating Ramadan to proclaim that “as a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country.”
After weeks of avoiding the high-profile battle over the center — his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said last week that the president did not want to “get involved in local decision-making” — Mr.
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