Not so for Bob Woodward, though, whose front-page review in the Washington Post is so unremittingly negative that you’d think Gates’ book was little more than a 600-page hatchet job against Obama.

Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration’s foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama.

While Republicans continue to indict President Obama's handling of the crisis in Ukraine as weak, indecisive, or otherwise incompetent, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged the president's ...

But in one passage that could raise problems for her if she runs for president in 2016, Gates says she conceded privately in a meeting with him and Obama that her opposition to sending more troops ...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates sharply questions President Obama's "passion" for military matters in his forthcoming memoir, and claims that practically the only time he saw that in the ...

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says his criticism of President Obama is more nuanced than media reports about his new book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, would have you believe ...

Now, Gates has written a memoir that questions Obama’s faith in the mission he assigned to American forces in Afghanistan and Vice President Joe Biden’s judgment on matters of war and peace.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in a book due out later this month, describes President Obama as "a man of personal integrity" who nonetheless was skeptical of his administration's "surge ...

WASHINGTON — Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates slams President Obama for feckless leadership in an astonishing new memoir, in which he also reveals that he detested his job. Gates, who ...

Like just about everybody else in Washington and many across the country, I've been reading the excerpts from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' book "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War." It ...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in his upcoming memoir, has harsh words for President Obama’s leadership style and commitment to the Afghanistan war – accusing the president of losing ...

As President Obama’s defense secretary, Bob Gates concluded this about his boss during a session in the White House Situation Room: “As I sat there, I thought: The president doesn’t trust ...