NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary and founder of the Gates Global Policy Center, about the center's new report focused on re-imagining public diplomacy.

In a new memoir, former defense secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 he had ...

Washington — Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said a lot of the young people protesting the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses "don't know much of that history" of the region as American ...

The following is a transcript of an interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates that aired on May 19, 2024. MARGARET BRENNAN: And we go now to the former Secretary of Defense and ...

The following is the full transcript of an interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a portion of which aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 18, 2025. MARGARET ...

After serving 8 presidents, the secretary of defense is ready to step down. June 6, 2011— -- After five years of service and more than 12,000 casualties among US troops in two wars, outgoing ...

Robert M. Gates, President Bush's choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, is an old ally of the president's father and a veteran of Capitol Hill political wars. Now president of ...

2020-07-04T20:00:34-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/7ce/20200704201617001_hd.jpgFormer Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke about American leadership in ...

Judy Woodruff spoke to former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about his new book “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.” Video by PBS NewsHour With extended deployments and multiple tours for ...

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to confirm Robert Gates, 63, as defense secretary, with Democrats and Republicans portraying him as the man who will help overhaul President Bush's Iraq ...

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 ...