| ID | 128849 |
| Title Proper | Gates's wars |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Fishman, Ben |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Robert Gates takes deserved pride in his achievements at the Pentagon. But he leaves an important part of the debate about America's future role in the world unaddressed. Very few government officials start in entry-level positions and manage to climb all the way to the role of agency head or cabinet secretary. So it says something about Robert Gates's professional stamina and political acumen that, having begun his intelligence career as a young Soviet analyst at the CIA in 1968, he worked his way up to become the agency's director in 1991. Several stints at the White House, in both Democratic and Republican administrations, helped pave the way. He was the first CIA director to emerge from its professional class (John Brennan only recently became the second), an especially notable achievement for an analyst in an institution that long privileged its clandestine service. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival: the IISS Quarterly Vol.56, No.2; April-May 2014: p.179-186 |
| Journal Source | Survival: the IISS Quarterly Vol.56, No.2; April-May 2014: p.179-186 |
| Key Words | United States - US ; Defence Policy ; Foreign Policy ; Survival ; War ; Central Intelligence Agency - CIA ; Intelligence |