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Books. Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. Robert Michael Gates. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014 - Biography & Autobiography - 618 pages. From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
12. Mai 2015 · Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. Paperback – May 12, 2015. After serving six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, Robert M. Gates believed that he had left Washington politics behind for good—but when he received the call from the White House in 2006 to help a nation mired in two wars, he answered what he felt ...
26. Sept. 2020 · Duty : memoirs of a secretary at war by Gates, Robert Michael, 1943- author. Publication date 2014 Topics Gates, Robert Michael, 1943-, United States. Department of Defense -- Officials and employees -- Biography, Cabinet officers -- Uni ...
12. Feb. 2014 · I was fully prepared to dislike “DUTY: Memoirs of a Secretary at War” by former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates. The simple reason is that I wrote a biography of a senior Pentagon official that Gates fired in 2008 (see Circle of Service). My take on how and why the individual was fired contrasted pretty sharply with Gates’ take, but ...
28. Aug. 2020 · We journey with him to both war zones as he meets with active-duty troops and their commanders, awed by their courage, and also witness him greet coffin after flag-draped coffin returned to U.S. soil, heartbreakingly aware that he signed every deployment order. In frank and poignant vignettes, Gates conveys the human cost of war, and his admiration for those brave enough to undertake when ...
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. Duty. : Robert Michael Gates. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014 - Afghan War, 2001- - 618 pages. From the former secretary of defense, a candid account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House ...
gates, robert M Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War Newburyport, Mass : Knopf, 2014 640pp $25. presidents gambled by committing the United states to two different wars, and both presidents needed someone to come along and ‘fix things’ when those two bets didn’t play out as the presidents expected and hoped ” gates was “the fixer ...
