They believe the best way forward is to chart a new path led by a man who holds many of our constitutional traditions in ...

Robert Gates, 80, is the distinguished former secretary of defense under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary for the Obama administration, paused for a moment and said "I don't know" in an interview Sunday when asked if he thinks former VP Joe Biden would be ...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he argued against President Obama’s Afghanistan war strategy that set dates for the drawdown of U.S. troops. He supports a decision by President Donald ...

Neither presidential candidate has offered a compelling vision on national security, former Defense Secretary Bob Gates writes in a scathing Wall Street Journal op-ed-- but Donald Trump is ...

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.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the Obama administration's decision not to act after Syria's president used chemical weapons a "serious mistake." ...

President Obama’s past three defense secretaries have emerged as some of his toughest critics on military strategy and foreign policy.

President Obama will have to use ground troops against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in order for his plan to succeed, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday. {mosads ...

From the memoirs of Obama administration appointees.What Agency Executives Can Learn From Robert Gates From the memoirs of Obama administration appointees.

The rose-colored worldview of the Obama administration and many at the top of the military sorely needs the hardboiled realist's balance.

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 ...