Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... Aid before you got to go to the meeting." Obama's expected retention of Robert M. Gates as defense secretary and expected appointment ...

The Obama administration went to Capitol Hill ... Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen. From NPR News, this is ...

President Obama put ... development of a joint Defense-Veterans Affairs electronic health record system at a White House press briefing Thursday with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and VA ...

Conventional wisdom in Washington holds that President-elect Barack Obama will soon invite current Defense Secretary Robert ... says of Gates’ regular meeting in the Joint Chiefs’ secure ...

Obama and Mattis fell out over the withdrawal from Iraq. "Central Command, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the new Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, who had replaced Bob Gates, continued to ...

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has written letters to President Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates opposing the proposed closure of the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk. The letters were ...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced Thursday. Gates told reporters he would recommend that President Obama nominate Greenert to become chief of naval operations, replacing Adm. Gary ...

President-elect Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Defense Secretary Robert Gates ... Both Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, who will remain as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after Obama ...

Robert Gates, the former Defense Secretary ... prospect of war between nuclear-armed great powers." Gates, who served under ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama moved Monday to complete an overhaul of his national security team, selecting Army Gen. Martin Dempsey as the next Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman amid a ...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the United States needs to focus on strategic communications to update its national security interests. Gates, who served under both Bush and Obama ...