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... Foundation (Colorado Springs, CO) As Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates , Colorado Springs, Colorado, Tuesday, 13 May 2008. Excerpts ...

Blog entry - May 13 2008 - 3:11pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... because it was unwinnable. One of the best books on the history of American involvement in Vietnam by historian George Herring ... Should We Be Trying to Bury from Vietnam Secretary of Defense Gates' speech today could have been written for this thread. Certainly his ...

Blog entry - May 13 2008 - 4:05pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

... is more apparent at this stage is a certain complacency on Rumsfeld's part. For example, he evidently did not challenge the personnel ... primary mission when he returned to the Pentagon as secretary of defense in 2001 was to transform the US military to meet the ... it seems more likely that it is his successor, Robert Gates, who will leave the lasting legacy. It's not just the high-profile ...

Blog entry - Jun 14 2008 - 1:40pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... conventional, large-scale warfare. In May, Defense Secretary Robert Gates weighed in. "I've noticed too much of a tendency toward what might ...

Blog entry - Dec 24 2008 - 5:31pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... In 2009, when the QDR was written, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates scorned what he termed "next-war-itis" and called on his ...

Blog entry - Nov 4 2011 - 5:13pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... Secretary Gates at National Defense University (Full Transcript). Highlight excerpts ...

Blog entry - Sep 30 2008 - 3:32am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... it's been the military (with top-cover from former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld) that's been trying to dodge the decision. One may ... President Bush and current Defense Secretary Robert Gates -- that finally is dragging a still-reluctant military into embracing the ...

Journal Article - Oct 3 2008 - 6:08pm - 3 comments