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 ...

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.

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 ...