Robert Gates
Obama in Europe: Opportunity for another “reset”
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May 30, 2011A few months ago, I was asked to brief my old boss, former Secretary of U.S. Defense Donald Rumsfeld, on developments in Europe since he left office in December 2006. While it is impossible to write succinctly about everything that has happened since...
US urges North Korea to get 'serious' on talks
January 13, 2011It is time for North Korea to get "serious" about negotiations for peace, the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said. Mr Gates was speaking in Japan, after a four-day visit to China. He said the risk of provocation leading to war between...
Robert Gates in China: Beijing seeks to ease US fears
January 10, 2011China's defence minister has sought to play down the country's military build-up, after talks with US counterpart Robert Gates in Beijing. Liang Guanglie insisted China posed no threat and was decades behind nations with more advanced technology. ...
N. Korea shells South Korean island, killing troops
November 23, 2010In the one of the most serious flare ups since the Korean War of the early 1950s, North and South Korea have exchanged artillery fire. At least two South Korean marines were killed and several others, and some civilians, were injured after North Korea...
Pentagon: No plan for military response to North Korean attack
November 23, 2010A Pentagon spokesman said the U.S. military is not working on any specific response to North Korea's attack on a South Korean island Tuesday, but is consulting with South Korea's military about steps that could ease tensions rather than increase them...
Gates: Iran 1-3 years from nuclear weapon
June 16, 2010U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Iran could have the material to develop a nuclear weapon in one to three years. Gates says the forecast is based on intelligence estimates, and he emphasized it does not include the time it would take Iran to...
Gates reluctantly accepts early end to US military gay ban
May 26, 2010By Al Pessin U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is reluctantly accepting a move in Congress to immediately repeal the ban on open homosexuals serving in the U.S. military -- a move that could come this week. Secretary Gates has endorsed the idea of...
US unveiled new nuclear strategy
April 06, 2010The Obama administration has unveiled a new nuclear strategy that reduces the number and the role of U.S. nuclear weapons. The United States released its policy document, the Nuclear Posture Review, Tuesday. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U...
Gates: NATO in 'crisis,' allies must invest in defense
February 24, 2010U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has warned European members of NATO that unless they modernize their militaries and increase their defense budgets, the trans-Atlantic military alliance risks being seen as weak by the rest of the world. Gates made...
Pentagon: Demilitarization of Europe Limits NATO
February 23, 2010By Al Pessin Gates: real or perceived weakness can tempt potential adversaries to be more aggressive U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the demilitarization of Europe is limiting NATO's ability to fight wars, including in Afghanistan. In...