Biden on Gates: History will decide who was right
Vice President Biden said Wednesday history would decide whether he or former Defense Secretary Robert Gates had a better foreign policy record. Biden called Gates a “fine man” but said he and the...
View ArticleGates: 'Serious mistake' to cut defense budget
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comFormer Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday it would be a “serious mistake” to cut the defense budget in the midst of an international standoff with...
View ArticleVladimir Putin: Hitler or Bismarck?
"Above all ... [Russian President Vladimir] Putin clings to a zero-sum worldview," former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates writes in The Wall Street Journal. "Contrary to the West's belief in the...
View ArticleGovernment dysfunction biggest threat to U.S.?
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday slammed Washington dysfunction, warning it was the biggest threat that America was facing."I think the greatest national security threat to this country...
View ArticleGates: I would've backed gay Scout leaders
Former Defense secretary Robert Gates, now president of the Boy Scouts, said Friday he would have supported openly gay Scout leaders in the organization but wont reopen the issue now."I was prepared to...
View ArticleWWGD: What would Gates do?
Last weekend, voters in Ukraine opted to place a candy magnate in charge of their government. Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire by virtue of his sweet success as the "Chocolate King," easily outdistanced...
View ArticleClinton-McRaven in 2016?
I am one of the people who always disliked Hillary Clinton. It has seemed a conundrum these past two decades as so many other people appear to have felt the same. I've given it a good deal of thought...
View ArticleGates: 'Small number' of US ground troops needed to combat ISIS
A "small number" of U.S. ground forces will be needed to vanquish the threat of Islamic extremists galloping through the Middle East, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.Gates said that,...
View ArticleFormer Pentagon chief: Obama's goal of defeating ISIS unrealistic
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday called President Obama's goal to destroy the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) “unrealistic” and warned that ground troops may be needed to “roll...
View ArticleContinuing our Iran policy: A mistake then, a mistake now
While the Obama administration systematically engages Iran as the centerpiece of a Middle East strategy, my distinguished colleague, David Goldman, writes that President George W. Bush adopted a...
View ArticleGates praises Clinton as 'a good secretary of State'
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates in an interview aired on Sunday praised Hillary Clinton’s work while secretary of State.“Well, I only ever dealt with Secretary Clinton on foreign policy matters,”...
View ArticleGates: Boy Scouts's gay adults ban 'unsustainable'
The national president of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), Robert Gates, admitted Thursday his organization could not continue practicing its traditional ban on participation by openly gay adults. “The...
View ArticleFormer Pentagon chief: Give US troops in Iraq more latitude
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says President Obama should expand the rules of engagement for U.S. troops assisting Iraqi military forces so that they can play a larger role in the fight against...
View ArticleEx-defense secretary: Budget compromise not 'selling out'
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates slammed Congress on Wednesday for the way it has approaching budgeting over the last decade – and this year in particular – but said if he were still in charge he...
View ArticleGates: Cruz 'at odds with reality' on ISIS
Carpet bombing the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has suggested, would be useless, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.“Carpet...
View ArticleEx-Pentagon chief: Iran, China or Russia may have gotten to Clinton server
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he believes foreign countries like Russia, China and Iran may have hacked the private email server Hillary Clinton used while secretary of State. “Given the...
View ArticleGates hits Cruz, Trump for 'opportunism' on national security
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is criticizing Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on national security.“My view is that they either really don’t understand how difficult this is or they’re...
View ArticleEx-Pentagon speechwriter says not even his new horror film is 'scarier...
A Pentagon speechwriter-turned-filmmaker says there’s nothing as scary as Washington — not even his new horror movie.Alston Ramsay, who worked as a speechwriter for former Homeland Security Secretary...
View ArticleRobert Gates joins calls for Army bases named after Confederate leaders to be...
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates voiced support for renaming military bases named after Confederate leaders in a recent interview, citing the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died...
View ArticleWhile Biden hedges, Gates says 'strategic ambiguity' must go — sort of
Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented President Biden’s Interim National Security Strategy Guidance. Based on what it said and left unsaid, the guidance importantly implicates Taiwan...
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