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HARDtalk: Robert Gates - US Defence Secretary, 2006 - 2011

Former US defence secretary Robert Gates

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Robert Gates - US Defence Secretary, 2006 - 2011

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Stephen Sackur speaks to the former US defence secretary Robert Gates.

Interviews with newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. Stephen Sackur speaks to the former US defence secretary Robert Gates about his newly published memoirs.

In a special edition of HARDtalk recorded in New York City, Stephen Sackur speaks to the former US defence secretary Robert Gates. In his newly published memoirs he gives the inside story on arguments and tensions inside the Obama White House - particularly over Afghanistan. He has called his book Duty but are some of his revelations an act of disloyalty?

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