The U.S. military is wholly unprepared to deal with the growing threats posed by China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, a ...

Rising violence and the resurgence of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan have put the Obama administration on defense as the war enters its ninth year. "Until the presid ...

At the time of his appointment, Gates was the youngest person ever to assume the role of CIA director. In addition, he is the ...

BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday made an unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital, whose residents are still reeling from a series of bombings that killed more than 100 people ...

CHICAGO - President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates on Monday, and said he wants ...

From the former secretary of defense, a candid account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a ...

MUNICH, Germany — Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday disputed a critique of American power by the Russian president a day earlier and told a European security conference, "One Cold War was quite ...

"This suggests that something happened that should not have happened," Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons said on CNN's "American Morning." "The situation is certainly unfortunate.