Defense Secretary Robert Gates has quietly created a new senior-level panel to advise him on decisions related to the Defense Department's global network of military bases, defense officials said. Word of the Global Posture Executive Council, or GPEC, first appeared in the public record on April 15, as Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice jointly testified before the House Armed Services Committee on collaboration between the federal agencies on national security issues. In her prepared remarks, published by the...
