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Email Address Robert M. Gates. Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post–Cold War World. Knopf, 2020. Robert M. Gates was born in 1943 in Wichita, Kansas and joined the Central Intelligence Agency twenty-three years later. He became a lieutenant in the US Air Force in 1967; served for nine years on the National Security Council; and served as deputy national security adviser, as deputy director and director of central intelligence, and as secretary of defense under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the only defense secretary in history to serve cons...
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