One speaker was Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

He chose his defense secretary and attorney general.

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He was Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics from April 2009 to October 2011, and Deputy Secretary of Defense from October 2011 to December 2013.

Indeed, the US has never had a woman president, Senate majority leader, Secretary of the Treasury, or Secretary of Defense.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said he did not know what soft power was.

Earlier in October, at the inaugural summit of ASEAN defense ministers in Hanoi, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared the US a resident power in Asia.

Robert McNamara, Kennedy s secretary of defense, said he became more cautious as the crisis unfolded.

Donald Rumsfeld, America s Secretary of Defense, recently spoke about the Bush administration s global war on terror.

In January 2006, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced the cancellation of the KC 767 contract.

In early 2007, the U.S. Secretary of Defense and ROK Minister of National Defense determined that South Korea will assume wartime operational control of its forces on December 1, 2015.

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It was part of a system of dealing with prisoners put in place by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

On all of these points, the concept of war, to paraphrase US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is not helpful.

That mission has led me to travel to Asia four times since becoming Secretary of Defense in July 2011.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz was widely condemned for his aggressive questioning of incoming Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel back in January.

But it was a recent statement to Congress by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that was especially shocking to Israelis.

The US administration also typically sends the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of State to deliver a ritual speech reassuring the Europeans of the strength of the transatlantic alliance.

By selecting his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, as his Secretary of State, and reaching across party lines to retain Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense, he showed openness to strong subordinates.

The minister for national defense, acting in cooperation with the minister for interior, coordinates the work of the four major committees under the National Defense Council the Military Defense Committee the Civil Defense Committee the Economic Defense Committee and the Psychological Defense Committee.

As America s current Secretary of Defense, it is clear to me that the transatlantic partnership is as relevant and essential as ever.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's petulant remark of last year about old and new Europe was right for the wrong reasons.

As Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has put it, The issues should determine the coalition, rather than the coalition determining the issues.

At a recent security conference in Singapore, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta emphasized the American military build up in the region.

On November 10, 2006 it was announced that he would replace Secretary of Defense designate Robert Gates in the Iraq Study Group.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz testified to Congress that Shinseki s estimate of the number of troops required was wildly off the mark.

As former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates put it shortly before stepping down, any adviser recommending such action should have his head examined.

His selection of Republicans for key posts including retaining Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense has raised a few eyebrows among his supporters.

Next he worked as an aide to Secretary of Defense James Forrestal in the late 1940s, then helped Paul Nitze write NSC 68.

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For now, America is keeping a channel open for direct dialogue with Iran (as US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned Barak months ago).

Indeed, his defense secretary, Robert Gates, made clear last year that the US will now seek to contain terrorism regionally rather than defeat it.

The establishment of a new air defense identification zone extending over the islands is its latest cabbage style security layer a unilateral power grab that US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel quickly branded a destabilizing attempt to alter the status quo in the region.

It was also a realpolitik acknowledgement of the setbacks to be expected along the way (the slog, as then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it).

Yet at the recent NATO summit in Budapest, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on NATO members to provide more troops for missions in Afghanistan.

NEW YORK I first met Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense who presided over the American buildup in Vietnam, in the summer of 1967.

On 24 September, Manor recommended approval of the October window to US Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, with 21 October as the primary execution date.

It is governed by the Ministry of Defense, and primarily consists of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF), the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) and the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF).

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