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...Robert Gates, Mr Obama’s first defence secretary, once warned that these expenses were “eating us alive”....
...Lawrence Korb, a former assistant secretary of defence now at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, said: “You couldn’t cut defence with Gates there; he was opposed to doing it.”...
...“There is not enough all-star talent to go round and traditionally there is strong competition for it from private equity firms, hedge funds and banks,” Brian Korb, a Glocap partner, told the FT....
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