Few people know more about the depth and complexity of America's national security than Robert Gates, who spent nearly three decades at the CIA and National Security Council before running the ...

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates discusses the U.S. sending tanks to Ukraine for the first time with NBC's "Meet The Press" host Chuck Todd. CHUCK TODD: I was just going to say ...

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.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday that a lot of the U.S.’s military aid to Ukraine “could have been done sooner.” “I think the only thing I would have said is that a lot ...

Robert Gates, 80, is the distinguished former secretary of defense under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Before that, he spent 26 years in the CIA, which he headed, and was a member of ...