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<link>http://military.einnews.com/news/robert-gates-military</link><description>Constantly updated news and information about military industry.</description><item>
<title>Bush says security gains in Iraq may last</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182263378</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 22:06 GMT</pubDate>
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...  reductions. Echoing the president&apos;s assessment, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said later at a Pentagon news conference  ...  recommendation from its soon-to-depart commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, on future troop levels. Petraeus  ...  lengths for U.S. troops. Starting Aug. 1, Army units heading to Iraq will serve 12-month  ...
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<title>Pentagon mounts 2.2 bln dlr push for war zone surveillance</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182260927</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 21:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  for Iraq and Afghanistan. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates also has signed off on a follow-on  ...  said, referring to drones operated by the army, air force and marines. &quot;It will allow us to buy additional  ...
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<title>US Senate confirms Homewood woman as brigadier</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182258527</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 21:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  has become the first woman in the Army Acquisition Corps to be named a brigadier  ...  U.S. Senate for the rank of brigadier general after being nominated by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Price is also the first woman to  ...
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<title>War with Iran - On, Off or Undecided?</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182254897</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 20:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the Middle East &quot;by underwriting a massive rearmament campaign by Syria;&quot; and -- seeking regional  ...  oppose one, want diplomacy instead, and apparently Robert Gates is one of them - a former  ...  with &quot;at least ten senior flag and general officers, including combatant commanders&quot; in charge of  ...
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<title>Pentagon mounts 2.2 billion-dollar push for war zone surveillance</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182230760</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 18:05 GMT</pubDate>
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...  for Iraq and Afghanistan. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates also has signed off on a follow-on  ...  said, referring to drones operated by the army, air force and marines. &quot;It will allow us to buy additional  ...
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<title>Win today&apos;s wars first</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182225143</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 17:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  themselves.&amp;rdquo; This sums up much of what Robert Gates, the defence secretary, has been saying of  ...  says little about the structure of America&amp;rsquo;s armed forces, or its spending priorities. But it  ...  the army at the expense of the navy and the air force, which argue that  ...
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<title>Guilty as Ordered</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182224645</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 17:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the prosecutors. According to Colonel Davis, Defense Secretary Robert Gates pushed out a fair-minded convening authority -  ...  of William J. Haynes, the Defense Department&apos;s general counsel. Colonel Davis had instructed prosecutors not  ...
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<title>&apos;The Hill&apos; Editor Spends Four-Day Visit With U.S. Army Chief of Staff</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182223080</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 17:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of more than 4,100 American soldiers and Marines, and nearly three quarters of a trillion  ...  Those are my conclusions after I accompanied Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey on  ...  the president met with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at  ...
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<title>Boeing air tanker bid takes hit</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182211560</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 16:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  may have been dashed Wednesday when the Pentagon announced its revised requirements. A key change  ...  mistakes. The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, sustained Boeing&apos;s appeal, saying that  ...  errors in reaching its decision. Defense Secretary Robert Gates subsequently announced that a limited competition would  ...
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<title>Assault Ship Sets Sail, Packed with Doctors</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182208006</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 15:55 GMT</pubDate>
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... Her job, originally, was to deliver 2,000 Marines and their gear to war. Now, instead  ...  is loaded with 550 humanitarian workers including Navy and Air Force construction workers; military doctors  ...  For a year now Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has been calling for the U.S. to  ...
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<title>Editorial: Guilty as Ordered</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182199380</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 14:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the prosecutors. According to Colonel Davis, Defense Secretary Robert Gates pushed out a fair-minded convening authority -  ...  of William J. Haynes, the Defense Department&apos;s general counsel. Colonel Davis had instructed prosecutors not  ...
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<title>Pentagon Issues Draft RFP for Tanker, Sees Contract Award in December</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182182313</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 13:18 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and acquisitions policy. Assad spoke during a Pentagon news conference today. The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, recommended that the Air Force  ...  were irregularities in the contracting process. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said DoD would address  ...
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<title>Israeli pre-emption better than Islamist cure</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182165466</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 11:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  America&apos;s whipsaw over Iran is even more alarming. Something has gone dreadfully wrong in Washington  ...  Iraq and now also Central Command head, General David Petraeus, diminished violence in Iraq is  ...  their supporters in Washington, notably Defense Secretary Robert Gates, have crushed hardliners such as Vice President  ...
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<title>Boeing&apos;s new bid to build tankers takes hit</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182146204</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 08:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  may have been dashed Wednesday when the Pentagon announced its revised requirements. To read the  ...  mistakes. The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, sustained Boeing&apos;s appeal, saying that  ...  errors in reaching its decision. Defense Secretary Robert Gates subsequently announced that a limited competition would  ...
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<title>Boeing tanker bid takes hit</title>
<link>http://military.einnews.com/news.php?wid=182132082</link>
<pubDate>7 Aug 2008 06:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  may have been dashed Wednesday when the Pentagon announced its revised requirements. To read the  ...  mistakes. The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, sustained Boeing&apos;s appeal, saying that  ...  errors in reaching its decision. Defense Secretary Robert Gates subsequently announced that a limited competition would  ...
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