Landon Lecture
Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates
Manhattan, Kansas
Monday, November 26, 2007
Excerpt:
"[M]y message today is not about the defense budget or military power. My message is that if we are to meet the myriad challenges around the world in the coming decades, this country must strengthen other important elements of national power both institutionally and financially, and create the capability to integrate and apply all of the elements of national power to problems and challenges abroad. In short, based on my experience serving seven presidents, as a former Director of CIA and now as Secretary of Defense, I am here to make the case for strengthening our capacity to use "soft" power and for better integrating it with 'hard' power."
Transcript at http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=1199
