At first glance, the new national defense strategy released by Bush administration Secretary of Defense Robert Gates last week seems like a fresh start. He seems to be intending to position it as "post-Bush," with much talk of working with allies and, heaven forbid, other U.S. government agencies. Gates's realist approach, which suggests a greater balance in the tools used to pursue U.S. security interests, positions him as a sort of "anti-Rumsfeld." The question is, how deep are the differences between the two?

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