Why Robert Gates Changed His Mind on Afghanistan

By John McCormack
Published August 16, 2010 5:39pm ET
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Why Robert Gates Changed His Mind on Afghanistan
Another very interesting nugget from the Foreign Policy profile of Defense Secretary Robert Gates: Gates’s most fateful influence may have come in the deliberations over the war in Afghanistan. Early in Obama’s presidency, in hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gates endorsed the commanders’ request for 21,000 more troops to shore up security for […]

Another very interesting nugget from the Foreign Policy profile of Defense Secretary Robert Gates:

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