Europe has been warned, and warned again. Still, it has been reduced to a near-fainting fit — and, in the case of one German official, actual tears — over the Trump administration’s tough ...

A defense official confirmed to Military.com ... disparities for civilians and generals that arose when then-Secretary Bob Gates was living in military housing. Comparing the rate Hegseth will ...

He was replaced by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who had led special operations forces in Iraq, on the advice of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who wanted "fresh eyes" in the drawn-out Afghanistan ...

Pete Hegseth? No, Robert Gates—who served as secretary of defense more than 14 years ago in the Obama administration—diagnosing the illness that has brought about this crisis. The good news ...

Robert M. Gates, the American defense secretary at the time, sat in the audience and later dismissed the remarks as a throwback to the Cold War. The Russian leader, however, has stuck unbendingly ...

Similar efforts have been undertaken before, Sharp said, including by Defense Secretary Robert Gates under President Barack Obama, but they still fell well short of Hegseth’s goals.

It’s fourteen years since then-U.S. defense secretary Bob Gates warned Europeans to their faces that “if current trends in the decline of European defense capabilities are not halted and ...

The figure for Obama does not include former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a holdover from the previous administration who didn’t require another Senate confirmation vote. Counting Gates ...

Mike Pompeo disavowed… Senate Begins Confirmation Hearings for Gates as Defense Secretary The Senate begins confirmation hearings Tuesday for ex-CIA Director Robert Gates, who President Bush ...