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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is the skeleton at the feast.(The Week)(Brief article)

National Review

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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is the skeleton at the feast. The budgetary problem for practically every other member of Obama's cabinet is how to spend an unprecedented bonanza quickly enough. For Gates, it is how to make do with less--at a time when the nation is still embroiled in two major wars of counterinsurgency, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Given his constraints, Gates has chosen wisely, putting the emphasis on capabilities important ...

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