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Jun 15, 2020 · Robert Gates spent decades in the CIA before being appointed to lead that agency. He was secretary of defense for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He served eight presidents from both ...
Robert M. Gates ran the Central Intelligence Agency for former president George H.W. Bush, and the Pentagon for both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. On Friday, Feb. 26 at 2:00pm ET ...
Jun 15, 2020 · Then U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates walks from an Osprey aircraft after landing at Forward Operating Base Dwyer on June 5, 2011 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Pool/Getty Images hide ...
Feb 8, 2024 · And, as Gates writes, “at the very moment that events demand a strong and coherent response, America cannot provide one.” Gates worries that such dysfunction at home could prompt America’s foes to make risky bets—with catastrophic consequences for both the country and the world. Sources: “The Dysfunctional Superpower” by Robert M. Gates
Sep 29, 2023 · By Robert M. Gates. November/December 2023 Published on September 29, 2023. Isabel Seliger. Play. Download Article. The United States now confronts graver threats to its security than it has in decades, perhaps ever. Never before has it faced four allied antagonists at the same time—Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran—whose collective ...
Gates. As with most cases in the NSC, I had a friend who was already there. Actually, it was not in a substantive job; he was the deputy executive secretary. But Kissinger had taken his Soviet expert, Bill Hyland, to State when he became Secretary of State, so there was a vacancy for a Soviet expert on the NSC.
May 22, 2022 · Robert Gates says NATO expansion "changes the geopolitics of Europe in a dramatic way" 11:20 The following is a transcript of an interview with former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that aired ...
