Trump is the most pliable. But Netanyahu plays them all like cheap violins, despite being wrong about every important matter of the last 25 years.

Former CIA director Robert M. Gates was on “Face the Nation” last month and demonstrated that there has never been a better truckler in the federal bureaucracy over the past four decades ...

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama shared their reaction to "fellow Chicagoan" Robert Francis Prevost becoming Pope Leo XIV, the first-ever pontiff from the United States.

Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, found that even the powers of a defense secretary are not always sufficient to move the Pentagon bureaucracy in ...

Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, will be the keynote speaker at a University of Kansas conference that will examine national security ...

The Trump administration and some defenders of these moves point to dismissals of military leaders by past presidents, including Barack Obama, whose defense secretary, Robert Gates, replaced General ...

Defense Secretary Hegseth allied with DOGE to fix the military budget and get it back to warfighting. Spending was reallocated and Congress could target Pentagon for $150 billion more.

Obama sought to pursue a new policy and wanted McKiernan out, replacing him with Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Defense Secretary Robert Gates claimed he wanted “fresh eyes” on the conflict of that day.

Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama have broken silence amid the ongoing divorce rumours by issuing two back to back joint statements. This marks the first time the ...

Senate confirmation hearings are slated to begin on Jan. 14, 2025, for Pete Hegseth, whom President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to serve as the next secretary of defense. It’s a massive job ...

Leading the U.S. Department of Defense is a massive job, broadly affecting Americans’ security at home and abroad and overseeing huge numbers of people and immense amounts of money.

Gates had served as an aide to Carter’s CIA Director, Stansfield Turner, and was in the White House the night of Operation Eagle Claw. What made the decision facing Obama particularly hard was that ...