What a difference three years can make. When White House aides were leaking juicy details of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates famously exploded.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says that, beginning immediately, all active-duty soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will serve 15-month tours — three months longer than the usual standard. This is ALL ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former CIA Director and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. At the time of his appointment, Gates was the youngest person ever to assume the role of CIA ...

In a dozen years of war, Americans have grown used to improvised explosive devices. They have rocked the streets of Kabul and Baghdad - and also of Washington. Only, in Washington, the bombshells ...

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 ...

The first day of coverage of former Robert Gates’ book on his years running the Pentagon have focused largely on the strains between him and President Barack Obama’s White House. That should come as ...

The notoriously bureaucratic N.C.A.A. is gearing up for debates about what it should look like going forward. By Alan Blinder The former defense secretary now leads a committee that could remake ...

WASHINGTON — Some autobiographies emerge from careful reflection, others from career calculation. Robert Gates’ “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War” seems the result of a good, long seethe. This is ...

The rose-colored worldview of the Obama administration and many at the top of the military sorely needs the hardboiled realist's balance. With the Russian annexation of Crimea and the overall rapid ...

WASHINGTON — Some autobiographies emerge from careful reflection, others from career calculation. Robert Gates’ “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War” seems the result of a good, long seethe. This is ...