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It was hard to miss the message that Barack Obama was sending with the powerful tableau lined up behind him onstage in Chicago. "I assembled this team because I'm a strong believer in strong personalities and strong opinions," the President-elect said of his national-security picks. The top...
An improving situation in Iraq has helped bring about that convergence, especially between the incoming President and his future Defense Secretary. During the presidential campaign, Gates criticized Obama's 16-month withdrawal timetable, but now that proposal doesn't look very different from the security agreement the Bush Administration has...
As for the future, both Obama and Gates share a belief that there should be less emphasis on military power and more on using diplomacy and foreign aid to bend other nations toward U.S. interests. One thorny question at a time of economic crisis will be how much of the...
Jones is known for having sharp political skills of his own, which is one reason William Cohen recruited him to be his senior military assistant when Cohen, a Republican, was Defense Secretary in the Clinton Administration. "I wanted Jim because he knew where the bodies were buried," Cohen says. "And...
Of all of them, Gates probably has the best sense of what lies in store. After all, Obama will be the eighth President he has served. "There will no doubt be differences among the team," says Gates, "and it will be up to the President to make the decisions." A...