Gates versus the Air Force

摘要

Former CIA chief Robert M. Gates brought a very negative view of the Air Force with him when he took the job of Secretary of Defense. In his book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, he describes USAF as "one of my biggest headaches"-a perception Air Force leaders were never able to turn around during his five-year tenure at the Pentagon. In the book, Gates sticks to his story about why he sacked the service's top leadership and shot down the Air Force's most important programs, but his memoir reveals he often based his decisions on cherry-picked facts.