A Gates Team at the Pentagon
08.17.2011 at 08:44am
A Gates Team at the Pentagon by David Ignatius, Washington Post opinion. BLUF:
"Leon Panetta, the new defense secretary, will lead a team that is collegial and congenial, two qualities Gates prized. The question is whether its members have the toughness to say no to Pentagon bureaucracies that excel at logrolling and political horse-trading. Gates’s secret was his ability to impose accountability, and, with his barbed wisecracks, to scare subordinates into following his orders. This skill will be hard to replicate."
