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  Panetta Confirmation

  Posted by Jen DiMascio 2:55 PM on Jun 09, 2011

  A of couple snippets from CIA Director Leon Panetta’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee to replace Robert Gates as defense secretary:Panetta sai... Read More >>

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  Cyber Sins and Digital Damnation

  Posted by David A. Fulghum 2:45 PM on Oct 21, 2010

  Former senior Pentagon officials are stunned to hear that Defense Secretary Gates’ office is separating command, control and computers oversight from its intelligence respons... Read More >>

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  NATO Prepares For Lisbon Summit

  Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 6:47 PM on Oct 14, 2010

  NATO defense and foreign ministers met in Brussels today to prepare for the 19-20 Lisbon summit of allied leaders. The summit is expected to approve the alliance’s new strate... Read More >>

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  Jones Going, Gates Next, Then Who?

  Posted by Michael Bruno 2:55 AM on Oct 09, 2010

  The revelation today that National Security Adviser James Jones, a retired USMC commandant, Vietnam veteran and former NATO military chief, is leaving is not necessarily surpr... Read More >>

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  Eliminating Waste In Defense Spending--And On Capitol Hill

  Posted by Tony Velocci 4:41 AM on Aug 17, 2010

  Eliminating all manner of inefficiencies in the U.S. Defense Department—not to mention forcing the defense industry to exercise more discipline in how it manages weapons... Read More >>

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  Cost Cutting?

  Posted by Bettina Chavanne 3:42 PM on Jun 07, 2010

  Everybody must cut costs.   Now that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has laid down the law, cost-cutting measures are coming swiftly from every direction. On June 4, Gates d... Read More >>

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  Gates' Afghan Quandary

  Posted by David A. Fulghum 3:55 PM on Oct 02, 2009

  The situation is getting worse in Afghanistan, but Defense Sec. Robert Gates remains squarely on the fence about what to do. “Two areas where it is clearly worse are in the n... Read More >>

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  The Doctor is In

  Posted by Michael Bruno 7:09 PM on Sep 29, 2009

  Once upon a time, critics of Defense Secretary Robert Gates took solace in the fact that the Pentagon chief’s tenure there was – by his own words – limited. But a... Read More >>

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  Is Gates Overhauling the DoD?

  Posted by Sean Meade 8:11 PM on Sep 22, 2009

  Got my Wired magazine yesterday and Noah Shachtman, Editor of Danger Room, has an article about Robert Gates called Overhaul the Pentagon. In fact, Noah just posted about it.Here a... Read More >>

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  Check 6 Podcast -- Get It Now

  Posted by Robert Wall 2:26 PM on Sep 18, 2009

  Senior Pentagon Editor Amy Butler, Senior Technology Editor Graham Warwick have survived the Air Force Assn. meeting and share their collected wisdom with us on the this week&rsquo... Read More >>

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