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COIN standards for Afghanistan approved

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has approved a list of essential counterinsurgency skills that troops need to be successful in Afghanistan.

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Gates urges Congress to repeal gay ban now

MELBOURNE, Australia — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Congress should act quickly, before new members take their seats, to repeal the military's ban on gays serving openly in the military.

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Gates urges Congress to repeal gay ban now

MELBOURNE, Australia — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Congress should act quickly, before new members take their seats, to repeal the military's ban on gays serving openly in the military.

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Gates again backs war strategy in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that the Obama administration’s redrawn Afghanistan war strategy is sound, answering claims in a new book that the plan was a politically driven hodgepodge.

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Gates to kill JFCOM, cut general officer billets

Defense Secretary Robert Gates killed U.S. Joint Forces Command on Monday with the announcement that the Suffolk, Va.-based command will be shuttered “in about a year” as part of the latest round of cost-cutting measures.

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Gates to kill JFCOM, cut general officer billets

Defense Secretary Robert Gates killed U.S. Joint Forces Command on Monday with the announcement that the Suffolk, Va.-based command will be shuttered “in about a year” as part of the latest round of cost-cutting measures.

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Advisory board urges DoD civilian staff cuts

An influential Pentagon advisory board will recommend that Defense Department Secretary Robert Gates slash the civilian work force by more than 111,000 people and drastically pare the military’s combatant command structure as ways to save billions of dollars.

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Gates: U.S. must rethink expensive ships, EFV

Pentagon and naval officials must decide whether to keep buying multibillion-dollar warships, since the Navy’s shipbuilding budget is unlikely to grow amid economic uncertainty and two wars, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday.

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DoD: Bomber substitute may be family of systems

The Defense Department is examining how to fit “complementary” tools on the “family of systems” that would replace a long-range bomber concept terminated last year, Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter said Monday. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in April 2009 canceled … Continue reading

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Partners of gay troops to get benefits, too?

WASHINGTON — If gay service members are allowed to serve openly, the military will face another tough question: Should gay partners be entitled to military benefits?Momentum appears to be building for ending the ban on gays in the military. New … Continue reading

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