Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war / Robert M. Gates.
2014
E897.4.G37 A3 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war / Robert M. Gates.
Author
Gates, Robert Michael, 1943-
ISBN
9780307959478 hardcover
0307959473 hardcover
0307959473 hardcover
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Language
English
Description
x, 618 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
E897.4.G37 A3 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
355.6092 B
Summary
The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Includes index.
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Table of Contents
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
Meanwhile, back in Washington
War, war...and revolution
At war to the last day
Reflections.
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
Meanwhile, back in Washington
War, war...and revolution
At war to the last day
Reflections.