When former secretary of defense Robert M. Gates retired from the Obama administration in 2011, he explained that he could no longer support a president who favored a smaller military that would ...

Robert M. Gates ran the Central Intelligence Agency for former president George H.W. Bush, and the Pentagon for both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. On Friday, Feb. 26 at 2:00pm ET ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Robert M. Gates has been asked by President Barack Obama to continue as defense secretary, in an unusual step of continuity between ...