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 ...

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.

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 ...

Laetitia Vancon for The New York Times Fourteen years ago, as he was leaving the post of defense secretary, Robert M. Gates used his last speech in Europe to warn of what was coming.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ... In 2011, no less of an establishment figure than Robert Gates warned of a “dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress ...

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 ...