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Wired News
May 17, 2012
Then-US Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates countered, saying it would be 2020 or later before
China possessed a combat-ready stealth fighter.
Hindustan Times
May 17, 2012
In one of his last speeches as US defense secretary,
Robert Gates issued a stark warning that if European governments failed to heed the lessons of the
Libya operation and invest in their
armed forces,
NATO faced "a dim, if not dismal future.
CNN
May 17, 2012
When former
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced last June that the US was in preliminary talks with the
Taliban in Afghanistan, the idea was controversial.
ThinkProgress
May 17, 2012
By Ali Gharib on May 16, 2012 at 12:15 pm The former Secretary of Defense to the George W. Bush and Obama administrations
Robert Gates said in an interview on CBS aired this morning that getting
Iran to give up any potential ambitions to nuclear ...
The Daily Star
May 17, 2012
Second, the international
financial crisis will have an immense impact on
NATO members' defense budgets. Third, in a speech last June, outgoing US Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates revived the debate on trans-Atlantic burden-sharing and solidarity ...
Washington Post
May 17, 2012
Former
Defense Secretary Robert Gates rattled
NATO when he said the alliance risked falling apart if it continued to leave the hardest fighting and biggest bills to the United States.
Deseret News
May 17, 2012
By Joey Ferguson, Deseret News Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2011.
msnbc.com (blog)
May 17, 2012
London/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense spending cuts are putting an increasing strain on relations between the United States and its European allies in
NATO, sharpening transatlantic battles over issues ranging from financing
Afghan security forces to ...
Texas A&M University
May 16, 2012
The
Robert Gates-Muller Family Outstanding
student Award, which also includes a $5000 gift, was presented to Loveless, who graduated in December but returned to the campus to receive the award.
WHIO Dayton
May 16, 2012
By ROBERT BURNS AP Facing a mysterious safety problem with the Air Force's most-prized stealth fighter, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday ordered new flight restrictions on the
F-22 and summoned help from
navy and
NASA experts.
Post-Bulletin
May 16, 2012
I wonder if the Pentagon is shadowboxing its orders to cut the defense budget. One of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' last orders was to institute a bevy of reductions including a reduction in troop strength and a stabilization of the Pentagon's ...
Politico
May 16, 2012
The five readers closest to the mark get shout-outs in tomorrow's Morning Defense. Hint: Last year, there were 220 amendments submitted.
CBS News
May 16, 2012
WASHINGTON - Facing a mysterious safety problem with the Air Force's most-prized stealth fighter, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday ordered new flight restrictions on the
F-22 and summoned help from
navy and
NASA experts.
Reuters
May 16, 2012
By Adrian Croft and David Brunnstrom |
London/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense spending cuts are putting an increasing strain on relations between the United States and its European allies in
NATO, sharpening transatlantic battles over issues ranging ...
CBS News
May 16, 2012
(CBS News) "CBS This Morning" co-host
Charlie Rose recently spoke with former Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates. A transcript of the conversation is posted below.
CBS News
May 16, 2012
(CBS News) Former Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates said Wednesday he had "no doubts that the SEALs could perform the mission" that killed
Osama bin Laden.
Los Angeles Times
May 15, 2012
(N) 4 pm KNBC
Charlie Rose Former Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates. (N) 11 pm KVCR; midnight KOCE Chelsea Lately Brooklyn Decker; Fortune Feimster.
Houston Chronicle (blog)
May 15, 2012
(AFP photo)
President Barack Obama, center, former President George HW Bush, right, and
Defense Secretary Robert Gates say goodbye to the crowd at
Texas A&M University where they spoke on occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Points of Light ...
San Francisco Chronicle
May 15, 2012
Former Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates has been appointed to the board of directors of
Starbucks. In fiscal year 2012, this will earn him up to $240000 in cash, or $120000 plus stock options.
TucsonSentinel.com
May 15, 2012
These costs have nearly doubled in the past 10 years and now consume one-third of the baseline defense budget. If they continue growing, these costs will begin to divert funds from other critical national security initiatives such as training and ...
CNN (blog)
May 15, 2012
Back in 2010, Defense Secretary Robert Gates complained that his department was "awash in taskings for reports and studies.
Wall Street Journal (blog)
May 13, 2012
However,
China's defense industry is working hard to become capable of mass producing Chinese-made military
jet engines in order to end dependence on Russia, give China maximum strategic flexibility, and begin to compete with Russian-made combat ...
MENAFN.COM
May 13, 2012
Second, the international
financial crisis will have an immense impact on
NATO members' defence budgets. Third, in a speech last June, outgoing US Secretary of Defence
Robert Gates revived the debate on transatlantic burden-sharing and solidarity ...
William and Mary News
May 13, 2012
That includes, first of all, this distinguished Chancellor and honored alum, the fancy dressed-up man,
Robert Gates.
Robert Gates and I have something very unusual in common. We were born at the same hospital, Wesley Hospital in
Wichita, Kansas.
RT
May 11, 2012
For almost five years
Robert Gates has been the man at the helm of the US military. He is now retiring, leaving behind an ever-growing defense budget and the new way of waging war, which saves
US soldiers at the expense of foreign civilians.
Free Speech Radio News
May 11, 2012
Plaintiffs say EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson,
Interior Department Secretary
Ken Salazar,
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others have failed to confront
climate change and protect the environment for future generations. The suit was filed in May of ...
GlobalPost
May 11, 2012
US Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates (2nd L) meets with Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith (2nd R) at the
NATO Defence Ministers Summit in Brussels, June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Reed (BELGIUM) (Pool/AFP/Getty Images)
Israel will not be attending ...
WIBW
May 11, 2012
(WIBW) -- A native Kansan who served as secretary of defense under two US presidents received an honorary doctorate from
Kansas State University Friday.
Reuters
May 11, 2012
But its presence in
military bases could grow more quickly with the recent appointment of former US Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates to the Seattle-based company's board of directors.
Starbucks, the world's largest coffee chain, already has strong ...
The Korea Herald
May 11, 2012
Second, the international
financial crisis will have an immense impact on
NATO members' defense budgets. Third, in a speech last June, outgoing US Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates revived the debate on transatlantic burden-sharing and solidarity ...
HFMWeek
May 11, 2012
-The second full day of this year's SALT Conference featured Karl Rove, deputy chief of staff to former
US president George W. Bush, and a keynote speech from former US Secretary of Defense Dr
Robert Gates.
hedge fund industry pioneers were also ...
Local 10
May 10, 2012
The former
Massachusetts governor wants to increase defense spending by leaps and bounds. By one estimate, additional spending would exceed $2 trillion over the next decade.
Las Vegas Sun
May 10, 2012
Former
Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated at the time it was a gutsy decision for
President Obama to focus on getting bin Laden.
Houston Chronicle (blog)
May 9, 2012
(Associated Press)
President Barack Obama, center, former President George HW Bush, right, and
Defense Secretary Robert Gates say goodbye to the crowd at
Texas A&M University where they spoke on occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Points of Light ...
CNN (blog)
May 9, 2012
The wish list requests have been on the decline since fiscal year 2010, when then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates mandated that the services show their lists before submitting them to Congress.
Jakarta Globe
May 7, 2012
by Dan De Luce | May 08, 2012 US and Chinese defense chiefs pledged to work together on cyber threats and forge a dialogue on security as both sides steered clear of a diplomatic dispute over a top Chinese dissident.
Huffington Post
May 7, 2012
President-elect Obama opted for continuity at the Pentagon, retaining Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. Though long a servant of Republican administrations, Gates cut his teeth at the CIA and was seen as above the partisan fray.
HSToday (blog)
May 7, 2012
Napolitano assured the veteran lawmaker and war hero that she'd talked to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his predecessor,
Robert Gates, "about the fact that we do have a comprehensive border
strategy," and that it involved what "the Department of ...
Los Angeles Times
May 7, 2012
Fourteen months ago, then-
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited
Sangin to hail the "dramatic turnaround" in security brought about by
the Marines, but violence has since crept upward again.
China Daily
May 7, 2012
In January 2011, former US
Defense Secretary Robert Gates paid an official visit to
China. It was seen as a warming sign of bilateral military relations.
Xinhua
May 7, 2012
Coming a year after former US
Defense Secretary Robert Gates' visit to
China and beginning Friday amid the fourth round of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue, the week-long trip offers yet another opportunity for the two heavyweights to ...
Daily Nation
May 5, 2012
Politico
May 4, 2012
And several
staffers told Morning Defense they expect this year's markup to be less contentious than in years past. But the Senate, which will start crafting its own version later this month, is likely to put forward a much less expensive bill -- one ...
International Business Times
May 4, 2012
Defense
analysts in
China and the US widely believe the visit by Liang is a reciprocation of former
Defense Secretary Robert Gates' trip to China in January 2011. On the prior occasion, China allowed Gates into the headquarters of its Second Artillery, ...
The Atlantic
May 4, 2012
By Edward Tenner US
Defense Secretary Gates delivers the commencement address during the Kaiserslautern High
school graduation ceremony in Kaiserslautern / Reuters.
ABC News
May 3, 2012
Just days before defense contracting giant
Lockheed Martin officially delivered the final stealth
F-22 fighter to the
US Air Force,
Sen. John McCain told ABC News that the jets, which the Air Force call the future of American air dominance, ...
eStocksDaily
May 3, 2012
Starbucks Corporation (
Nasdaq:SBUX) said on Wednesday that
Robert M. Gates, former US Secretary of Defense and present chancellor of the College of William & Mary, was selected to the Starbucks Board of Directors.
OpEdNews
May 3, 2012
By
Robert Parry (about the author) Then-
Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Situation Room on May 1, 2011, monitoring the raid that killed
Osama bin Laden.
Fox Business
May 2, 2012
(SBUX) said Wednesday that former US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has been named to its 11-member board. Gates served as defense secretary from 2006 until June 2011, working under both Republican President George W. Bush and his Democratic ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 2, 2012
SEATTLE, May 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Starbucks Corporation (
Nasdaq:SBUX) announced today that
Robert M. Gates, former US Secretary of Defense and current chancellor of the College of William & Mary, was elected to the Starbucks Board of Directors.
