Title:
Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war / by Robert M. Gates.
Author:
Gates, Robert Michael, 1943-
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Call Number:
E897.4 .P48 B76 2012
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9780307959478
Physical Description:
x, 618 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
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.
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