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. Full description
- 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.