Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke as a witness before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and then before the House Armed Services Committee, touching on topics including missile defense. The following is a transcript prepared by Space & Missile Defense Report, providing excerpts of his views in testimony before the Senate and House committees,. As well, he authored an article in the current January-February issue of Foreign Affairs, the magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations, in which he warned…
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