Gates: Wary of ‘Wars of Choice’
Looking Back, Gates Says He’s Grown Wary of ‘Wars of Choice’ by Thom Shanker and Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times. BLUF: “Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, as he prepared to depart the government for the second time, said in an interview on Friday that the human costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had made him far more wary about unleashing the might of the American armed forces.”