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The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, said the MoD had made progress and was now "balancing its books" .

The matter came up for discussion during the visit of Defence Secretary to Beijing earlier this year.

"Stuff happens, " was the defence secretary's comment, a phrase used later as the title of an anti-war play in London's West End.

Robert Gates, then defence secretary, summed up the feelings of many when he said the US was "tired of buying the same horse twice" .

Changing the agreement, said the defence secretary, Robert Gates, was out of the question.

Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, said the conflict was " winnable " but warned there would be no early end to the fighting.

LAST summer Britain's defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth, told his new military chiefs that he wanted them to go on to a war footing.

This was the Defence Secretary's theme, that the allegations made by many from a comfortable distance are just plain false.

The visit to Beijing by US defence secretary Robert Gates last week did not calm nerves at the Pentagon.

To be fair, Mr Cameron and his defence secretary, Liam Fox, were left a grisly military inheritance by the previous Labour government.

Liam Fox, the Conservative defence secretary, says he is opposing the building of electric pylons in his own rural constituency.

In 2007, China hacked into a Pentagon network serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary.

Robert Gates, the defence secretary, expressed the hope that Russia would co-operate with a redesigned missile-defence system in Europe.

Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary who thought Iraq could be democratised by force and on the cheap, has been shown the door.

The defence secretary, Robert Gates, this week announced $100 billion in spending cuts over the next five years.

Robert Gates, America's defence secretary, visited India to bolster military ties between the two countries and promote American arms sales.

Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, said separately yesterday that Iran was "not close" to obtaining a weapon.

On a recent visit Robert Gates, the defence secretary, said he may pull 5, 000 soldiers out ahead of schedule.

William Lynn, a lobbyist for Raytheon, a firm that makes missiles, is to be deputy defence secretary.

"We have no intention of attacking Iran, " said Robert Gates, US defence secretary, last week.

However, as defence secretary Robert Gates has pointed out, foreign governments still have to work with the US.

Mr Hutton was defence secretary at the time of the earlier troop request.

America's defence secretary, Robert Gates, visits China to talk about restarting a dialogue on military matters.

The US defence secretary urged the world to "stand together" , saying there was still time for sanctions to work.

One of the drones crashed in Afghanistan in 2008 in what defence secretary Bob Ainsworth called "a forced landing" .

The former defence secretary Robert Gates set out Washington's frustrations in his valedictory speech to Nato allies in Brussels.

The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, condemned the decision by the news agency Associated Press to publish.

Even when he became defence secretary, Mr Fox was confronted by budget problems and equipment shortages.

Liam Fox, the defence secretary, has warned of the threat to the armed forces and national security posed by impending spending cuts.

On a recent visit to Afghanistan, Robert Gates, the defence secretary, declared that "progress has exceeded my expectations" .

Nor should Leon Panetta, the new defence secretary, count on Mr Obama backing down at the last minute.

On Wednesday, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warned that court order could have "enormous consequences" for US forces.

And it is one the US defence secretary would rather you did not see.

Robert Gates, US defence secretary, told reporters in Afghanistan the arrest "sounds like good news to me" .

IT IS hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for Liam Fox, Britain's pugnacious defence secretary.

Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth dismissed the claim that Britain could maintain security by relying on internal measures alone.

The move by the defence secretary, Leon Panetta, emerged in briefings to US journalists.

This week it emerged that a similar Trojan Horse penetrated computers in the office of America's defence secretary, Robert Gates, in June.

US defence secretary Leon Panetta said this week Washington was not playing a direct role in gun-running into northern Syria.

Robert Gates, the new defence secretary, stresses that "We are not planning for a war with Iran. "

This coming week, both Mr Blair and his Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, will be giving evidence at the inquiry.

Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has arrived in Afghanistan in his first trip to the country in his new position.

But despite Mr Rumsfeld's rather outlandish mode of speaking, fans of the tough-talking US defence secretary argue he is misunderstood.

The USS Lake Erie launched the missile shortly after Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, arrived in Hawaii en route to Australia.

With two new storms brewing in the Pacific, the defence secretary, Gilberto Teodoro, pleaded for help on national television.

Leon Panetta, Barack Obama's defence secretary, calls the consequences "devastating" .

The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, said today that satellites had picked up activity pointing towards a missile test.

Last month, the US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said America was within reach of defeating al-Qaeda by targeting its leaders.

The defence secretary has promised to keep paying death benefits to army families despite fiscal constraints.

Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary, warned it would "tear a seam" in US defence capacity.

US Defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Wednesday.

Hence outgoing US defence secretary Bob Gates' warning this year that Nato was fast becoming irrelevant.

Gotabaya, the defence secretary, is just one of three well-placed brothers.

Even with these planned cuts, the US Army and Marine Corps will still be larger than when Mr Gates became defence secretary four years ago.

Robert Gates, US defence secretary, may not be personally worried.

Investors face a world marked by "known and unknown unknowns" , in the words of Donald Rumsfeld, a former American defence secretary.

In 2007, Chinese military hackers penetrated the Pentagon computer network serving Robert Gates, the US defence secretary.

Before being appointed defence secretary in 2001, Donald Rumsfeld chaired a special commission to review America's space policy.

The new American Defence Secretary Leon Panetta says the strategic defeat of al-Qaeda is within reach.

"WE ARE not planning for a war with Iran. " So said Robert Gates, America's new defence secretary, on February 2nd.

Robert Gates, the defence secretary, has launched an investigation.

Robert Gates, his defence secretary, says that America is "tired of buying the same horse twice" .

During US defence secretary Robert Gates's Beijing meetings last week, China tested its stealthy J-20 prototype combat aircraft.

Robert Gates, America's defence secretary, proposed deep spending cuts.

"It is probably a good thing that he's been killed, " Donald Rumsfeld, a former defence secretary, told Fox News.

Mr Cameron said his defence secretary's fears were "unfounded" .

Robert Gates, the defence secretary, plansto wage war on bureaucracy, but the Pentagon has defeated past steamliningattempts.

The shadow defence secretary, Liam Fox, called the incident "extremely worrying" .

eg. The deal was hailed by the Defence Secretary.

They have also met on 18 foreign trips made by the defence secretary during that period.

Both he and the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates suggested that the rebels needed help in terms of, for example, training.

It's his first visit here as defence secretary.

There is probably no more conservative member of the government than the defence secretary.

Defence secretary Robert Gates said in 2009 that China could have a "handful" of fifth-generation fighters by 2025.

The third senator, Jim Webb, adds that Robert Gates, America's outgoing defence secretary, is "very open to our suggestions" .

That, said Mr McCain, was the strategy of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary who was sacked last year.

According to Mr Rajapaksa, the defence secretary, most Sri Lankans want the government "to finish this damn thing off soon" .

Shadow defence secretary calls on government to widen investigation into links with Adam Werritty, despite resignation

Geoff Hoon, British Defence Secretary

Robert McNamara, systems analyst and defence secretary, died on July 6th, aged 93