![]() ![]() Perhaps that’s why one of Wilkie’s former bosses, Republican Senator Thom Tillis, calls him “Forrest Gump.” Being witness to so much history, and influencing a lot of it, has surely been a thrill for Wilkie, who’s long been obsessed with the American story. He’s thus played a pivotal if largely invisible role carrying out America’s War on Terror. In this and other high-profile positions since, he has worked with a powerful flock of war hawks, including former Defense Secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and James “Mad Dog” Mattis, former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Dubya himself. ![]() In 2005, he became the youngest senior leader in Pentagon history when he was named Assistant Secretary of Defense. Bush administration, Robert Wilkie was a war whiz kid. ![]()
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