Tag Archive 'Robert Gates'

Gates for President?

Zenpundit wishes Robert Gates were running for president. Call it the theorist-technocrat coalition candidate (it might pull a whole tenth of a percentage point). Naturally such a wish is evocative of the folks of an earlier era who wondered why it was that Dean Acheson or Arthur Schlesinger weren’t standing for election. Now as then it’s a silly wish, as it just doesn’t work. By the weight of my comparison though, I think you can tell I wouldn’t mind if it did for Gates. :)

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[Insert] War

Thomas Barnett takes a look at Gates and the different schools of thought on Pentagon spending priorities. Apparently it comes down to the Next War vs. the Long War vs. the This War vs. the Big War vs. Proxy War. Got that?

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