James Forrestal

Robert Gates: America's Best Defense Secretary?

Asher Smith | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, Pentagon, Robert Gates, James Forrestal, Leon Panetta, Politics News
Asher Smith

By providing a model for effective Pentagon administration suitable for emulation, Gates has accomplished far more, under more challenging circumstances, than virtually all of his predecessors.

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An Alternate History of the Energy Crisis

Michael Kanellos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: u.s. Foreign Policy, Energy Efficiency, Automobiles, General Motors, Arab Oil States, Nascar, Mileage, Oil, Iran, Ethanol, Israel, Ford, James Forrestal, Oil Embargo, Communism, Marshall Plan, Green News
Michael Kanellos

What if the United States had been forced to cut down on gas starting in 1948? U.S. auto companies likely wouldn't have become the bumbling boneheads of the industrial world.

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