Gates and other U.S. officials have criticized Europe in the past, saying it is failing to hold up its end of the bargain. But his harsh language Friday in the speech to the Security and Defense ...

WASHINGTON — Europeans’ aversion to military force is limiting NATO’s ability to fight wars effectively, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today.

Gates' actions would have raised “a lot of eyebrows” if he told the American taxpayer what he did regarding European defense. So Gates has left Europe not only with a warning, but with a question.

Gates, on the final stop of an 11-day, around-the-world farewell tour ahead of his June 30 retirement, told a packed audience of European elites that “NATO’s serious capability gaps and other ...

In an unusually stinging speech, made on his valedictory visit to Europe before he retires at the end of the month, Gates condemned European defense cuts and said the United States is tired of ...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday questioned the commitment of some NATO allies to winning in Afghanistan, saying the outcome there is at "real risk" because some European nations are ...

NATO’s problems greatly magnified by the expansion of its mandate beyond European borders, following 9/11 called for “serious, far-reaching and immediate reforms,” Mr. Gates said.

European governments and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have pledged to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency funds for a ... Europe, Gates pledge funds to get vaccines tor ...

Europeans’ aversion to military force is limiting NATO’s ability to fight wars effectively, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. In remarks to a forum on rewriting the basic mission ...