Robert Gates testifies on Capitol Hill. Haraz N. Ghanbari / APFrom Time Magazine:
Defense Secretary Robert Gates may have helped right the Iraq war, and he took Afghanistan by the scruff this week when he fired the top U.S. commander there for poor leadership after only 11 months on the job — but those challenges pale before the struggle he faces in selling Capitol Hill on his plan to retool the U.S. military. Appearing before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, Gates faced complaints that the changes envisaged in his latest defense budget proposal preempt the the mammoth Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) currently underway. The QDR, legislators argued, is an honest assessment of military needs by military professionals, rather than a budget-driven exercise led by political appointees. But the QDR typically also reinforces a status quo that Gates insists does not reflect America's military needs for the 21st century.
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