Admiral to become top military officer: Gates
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The top U.S. military officer, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, will retire at the end of his term later this year and be replaced as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
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As secretary of Defense, Robert Gates may be able to shape a bipartisan approach on Iraq and the war on terror.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to reduces  the amount of military personnel held beyond their retirement dates or enlistment length
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WASHINGTON -- The US military must improve its planning for postwar operations, Robert M. Gates, the nominee for defense secretary, told a Senate panel.
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Robert M. Gates is finding Donald H. Rumsfeld an easy act to follow, as the new defense secretary wins hearts and minds throughout Washington and overseas.
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To little notice, the Defense secretaryÂ  has gotten his way on Iraq, and possibly on Iran. Now, Gates is about to appoint a former top Clinton official to prove he means business.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is to visit Japan next month, a report said Saturday, as Washington seeks to persuade Tokyo to maintain its support for forces in Afghanistan.
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly confirmed Robert Gates as the next defense secretary, replacing Donald Rumsfeld, an architect of the unpopular Iraq war.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates met his top military commanders in Iraq on Monday to discuss the pace of U.S. troop reductions, a day after militants killed more than 50 people in a spate of attacks.
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The general brought in to command Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the wake of a scandal over conditions at the hospital was nominated by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday as the new surgeon general of the Army.
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A U.S. Senate panel unanimously  recommended on Tuesday approval of the nomination of Robert  Gates, President George W. Bush's nominee to be defense  secretary.
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Robert Gates, President George W. Bush's choice to take over the Pentagon as the Iraq war grinds on, goes before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday for what is expected to be quick hearing before likely Senate confirmation later this week.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates, at a meeting of European defense ministers, won a commitment from Slovakia on Monday to increase its troop presence in Afghanistan.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has won praise for the removal of two top Army officials over care for wounded troops, with admirers seeing a new commitment to accountability at the Pentagon.
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Robert Gates, the incoming U.S. secretary of defense, won plaudits in Washington this week for his candor on the Iraq war.
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In trying to shake things up just a little at the Pentagon, Defense  Secretary Bob Gates took one ordinary -- and one extraordinary --step this week
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Pentagon Chief Robert Gates, in his push for a coordinated assault against the Taliban in Afghanistan this spring, is enlisting Pakistan's help and vowing better military coordination along the troubled border between the two countries.