On Defense

Defense Secretary Robert Gates today argued against cutting the defense budget to address the massive federal deficit.

“When it comes to the deficit, the Department of Defense is not the problem,” Gates said at the annual meeting of The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council. The specific defense cuts recently proposed by the leaders of the administration’s deficit commission amount to “math, not strategy,” Gates said.

C-SPAN has video of Gates’ remarks. In the clip, Gates appears after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.