By Marina Malenic Defense Secretary Robert Gates has indicated that he plans to retire next year, just as the department has begun implementing his strategy to reduce overhead costs and other bureaucratic waste. "If I stay until January 2011, I will have been in the job longer than all but four of my predecessors," Gates said in an interview published yesterday in Foreign Policy magazine. "I think that it would be mistake to wait until January 2012." Analysts differed on…
Gates Signals 2011 Departure As DoD Begins Fat-Trimming Exercise
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