Robert Gates' book should be read by any one that has served in the last 8 years!

Critics that write reviews are politically driven much like everyone in the National Capital region. They read the book form that perspective and lens. To read it as a military member that lived through everything he talks about in the book gives you and entirely different appreciation for happened and why Gates did the things he did.
The president, republican or democrat, has their role in government and if they want to use this book to advance their agenda that’s find. But if people only take the book for what Fox news or CNN says about it then they have missed out on a critical perspective on living history.
One of my favorite professors would always say “there are two types of people in this world, those that read and those that don’t”. Don’t let someone else make up your mind for you.

I was looking at waiting until I got this one for free but you may have just convinced me to purchase the book (I am a cheapskate).