TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gates,Robert Michael
TI  - Duty: memoirs of a Secretary at war 
SN  - 9781497310445 (pbk.) :
AV  - E897.4.P48 B76 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - [California]: 
PB  - Instaread, 
KW  - Gates, Robert Michael,
KW  - United States
KW  - Department of Defense
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Afghan War (2001-)
KW  - Iraq War (2003-2011)
KW  - War on Terrorism (2001-2009)
KW  - Cabinet officers
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Afghan War, 2001-
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
KW  - Civil-military relations
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Employees
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Political science
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2001-2009
KW  - 2009-
KW  - American
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -