
Robert Gates ADMIN - Mr. Wheeler is an expert on the defense acquisition process and is an associate of the late military strategist and aviation innovator, Col. John Boyd, USAF
Source: www.politico.com
In an Ideas piece, Wheeler says the plan for the F-22 needs to be more comprehensive.

Robert Gates Admin DEFSEC Gates does not twitter
Source: www.swamppolitics.com
"Absolutely not,'' the secretary says to the question about whether he takes part in any of this new-fangled social networking.

Robert Gates Admin - The SecDef hits the links
Source: www.canada.com
EDMONTON — Robert Gates’ expectations coming into this week’s $150,000 Telus Edmonton Open were lower than a limbo bar for snakes.

Robert Gates Admin - Flournoy, under secretary of defense for policy, hods a key deputy position to SecDef Gates
Source: www.nytimes.com
Michèle A. Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy, is considered the “brains” of the Pentagon building.

Robert Gates Admin- Brownie points to all aspiring defense wonks who know the difference betwen public affairs, public diplomacy and information operations. PSYOPS is not eligible :)
Source: www.army.mil
When Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates tapped Price Floyd to run the Defense Department's public affairs operation, he gave him two basic marching orders: improve the way the department communicates -- especially to young people -- and solicit feedback in the process.

Robert Gates Admin- From April issue of Esquire Magazine - a profile of the politics and priorities of the DoD budget under SECDEF Robert Gates by strategist and author Thomas P.M. Barnett
Source: www.esquire.com
If the Iraqi and Afghan insurgents and, now, the Somali pirates have taught us anything, it's that the era of the "big war" is behind us. No one gets that more than our Secretary of Defense, argues a top global-security expert

Robert Gates Admin - SECDEF Gates calls on young Americans to embrace public service
Education | At UW graduation, Secretary Gates urges life of public service | Seattle Times Newspaper
Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com
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Robert Gates Admin- Inside baseball on defense spending possibly being held to the rate of inflation
Source: www.nationaldefensemagazine.org
Defense budget gloom-and-doom vibes are spreading inside the beltway. Secretary Robert Gates says to expect modest increases of no more than 2 percent in the coming years. But industry insiders worry that ...

Robert Gates Admin - Latest public statement on the Nuts in the North
Source: news.yahoo.com
North Korea is showing no signs of preparing a major troop build-up, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, describing its routine military stance as a "source of comfort".

Robert Gates Admin - Flip side to previous article. When NATO members do not contribute enough ground troops, the US has to make up the difference and that reduces European influence on command decisions. Hmmm, gotta play to pay, boys.
Source: news.yahoo.com
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday said he was out to reassure NATO allies over concerns about a possible "Americanization" of the war effort in Afghanistan.

Robert Gates Admin - DEFSEC Gates attempts moral suasion to keep NATO focused on its mission
Source: www.usatoday.com
Perfect lines of white crosses curving behind him, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates used a somber visit to the graves of thousands of American dead from World War II to appeal Wednesday for similar unity and resolve in the current war in...

Robert Gates Admin - What is happening here is Gates and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff trying to suppport budgeting of equipment that actually would be used to carry out combat missions in wars other than WWIII with the Soviet Union. LCS is designed for close to shore operations
Pentagon's Mullen praises LCS; Robert Gates repeats hope of summer start of tanker bid - Breaking Ne
Source: blog.al.com
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's top officer offered a cheer for the troubled littoral combat ship program on Capitol Hill this morning.

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Admin - DEFSEC Robert Gates praises job being done by National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones, USMC (ret.)
Gen. Jones is the former Commandant of the Marines Corps and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
Source: politicupon.blogspot.com
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has hit back at critics of US President Barack Obama's national security advisor, saying the former Marine general deserved praise instead of "sniping" over his performance.Pentagon ...

Robert Gates Admin - the most important long term, structural, problem that affects our national defense capabilities
Source: www.politico.com
No service is spared. Congress squawkes. And Round Onegoes to Gates.

Robert Gates Admin - CNAS is a new think tank in DC that focuses on defense and national security policy and has a strong orientation toward "COIN", or counterinsurgency theory. The President of CNAS is former LTC, Dr. John Nagl, a primary author of the US Army/USMC Counterinsurgency Manual. Dr. David Kilcullen, a senior fellow, is a former adviser for COIN to General David Petraeus, the DoD and the State Department
Source: cnas.org
Eight years into the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, the situation is as perilous as ever and continuing to worsen. The campaign has been further complicated by a rapidly deteriorating security situation...




















