Who Are The Front Runners To Replace Robert Gates As Secretary Of Defense

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, left, signs the Afghan Defense Ministry welcome book as Afghanistan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak looks on in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 9, 2010. DoD photo by Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison

Who Will Fill Bob Gates' Pentagon Office? -- Time Magazine

Like Paul Bunyan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is going to do a lot of chopping as early as Thursday, when he's expected to detail $100 billion in new cuts to future Pentagon budgets. But some time after that, he's going to lay down his ax, leave his Pentagon E-ring office for the last time, and head west to his Washington state home overlooking Big Lake, some 50 miles north of Seattle. So just who's going to inherit his task of selling all that timber -- not to mention two wars -- to the White House, Congress and the American public?

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My Comment: My money is on John Hamre.