From Christian Science Monitor:
Though the Pentagon budget is slated to rise, he confronts an urgent need to force greater discipline on military spending.
Washington - Robert Gates has been a popular figure in Washington since he took over the Defense Department in 2006 from a discredited Donald Rumsfeld, essentially to salvage a stumbling war in Iraq. But the free pass may be about to come to an abrupt end.
It will soon fall to Secretary Gates to make some unpopular choices – and probably step on some important toes – as his desire to reform a bloated Defense Department steeped in tradition, inertia, and bureaucracy collides with vested interests.
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My Comment: From my point of view, Robert Gates will be more remembered for making the commitment to drastically expand and develop America's unmanned UAV fleet.
This should not be a surprise. What has changed the dynamics of the battlefield has been the introduction of Predator and Reaper UAVs that not only operate 24/7, but have also proven to be extremely effective with their Hellfire missiles and other ordinances.
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