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Jan 17, 2014 · Secretary Gates spoke about the threat of cyber attacks on the U.S and proposed cuts in defense spending recommended by a presidential commission of debt reduction. He also answered questions...
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Aug 28, 2020 · In relating his personal journey as secretary, Gates draws us into the innermost sanctums of government and military power during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, illuminating iconic figures, vital negotiations, and critical situations in revealing, intimate detail.
May 12, 2015 · Forthright and unsparing, Duty is Gates’s behind-the-scenes account of his nearly five years as a Secretary of Defense at war: the battles with Congress, the two presidents he served, the military itself, and the vast Pentagon bureaucracy; his efforts to help George W. Bush turn the tide in Iraq; his role as a guiding (and often dissenting ...
- Robert Michael Gates
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- Vintage
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War is a nonfiction book written by Robert M. Gates, a former U.S. secretary of defense. It was published in January 2014 by Alfred A. Knopf.
- Robert Michael Gates
- 2014
In his memoir “Duty,” the former defense secretary Robert M. Gates provides revelations about major decisions made from late 2006 to 2011.
Gates claims he waged “wars” as secretary – against the Pentagon, the White House, Congress, as well as against enemies abroad in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere – and therein lies the book’s greatest, albeit semantic, weakness.
Sep 26, 2020 · x, 618 pages : 25 cm. Summoned to duty -- Iraq, Iraq and Iraq -- Mending fences, finding allies -- Waging war on the Pentagon -- Beyond Iraq: a complicated world -- Good war, bad war -- One damn thing after another -- Transition -- New term, new agenda, old secretary -- Afghanistan: a house divided -- Difficult foes, difficult friends ...
