It presents a significantly more negative picture of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than Gates’ statements in office led anyone to expect. And it presents an interesting contrast with Gates’s ...

Here’s the New York Times’ take on the new book by former Obama (and Bush) Defense Secretary Robert Gates: “After ordering a troop increase in Afghanistan, President Obama eventually lost faith in the ...

In a sweeping interview with Foreign Policy magazine, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he will step down in 2011 after the president's Afghanistan strategy review is completed. Speaking to national ...

WASHINGTON - A visibly moved Defense Secretary Robert Gates paused briefly at a Pentagon retirement ceremony rife with pomp and pageantry, collected himself and told his president: "You're getting ...

Obama secretary of defense Robert Gates says Obama didn't deserve Nobel Prize when he got it Former Obama secretary of defense Robert Gates wasn't sure President Obama ever deserved to get a Nobel ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has delivered a scathing critique of President Barack Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan in a revealing new memoir, U.S. media reported ...

President Obama’s two former Defense secretaries, Bob Gates and Leon Panetta, on Tuesday criticized his handling of the Syria crisis. The former Pentagon chiefs said they would not have sought ...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates writes in his new memoir that President Barack Obama was concerned his national security advisers might later write memoirs — much to Gates’ offense. Duty: ...

What a difference three years can make. When White House aides were leaking juicy details of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates famously exploded.

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates is encouraging Congress to act before year's end to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. It's a position shared by his boss, the ...