
A Sacred Oath
Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times
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Joe Knezevich
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Mark T. Esper
Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration.
From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through an unprecedented time in history—a period marked by growing threats and conflict abroad, a global pandemic unseen in a century, the greatest domestic unrest in two generations, and a White House seemingly bent on breaking accepted norms and conventions for political advantage. A Sacred Oath is Secretary Esper’s unvarnished and candid memoir of those extraordinary and dangerous times, and includes events and moments never before told.
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Excellent book
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Opening consitant with "doing the right thing"
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THEN HE RUINED IT
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we didn't shoot cruise missiles into Mexico
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Fascinating eye opening
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I’ve read a half dozen tell-alls about the Trump presidency, this one is less spicy than others because he had less exposure to Trump (at times almost avoiding him to prevent excessive use of the military) and Mark is relatively restrained in his criticism.
This book is very much Mark’s apologia for many incidents that happened while he was in office, and a lot of anecdotes seem included mostly because the media went on to misreport them, and Mark wants to have his say. If you didn’t follow the news closely during these years then you may not remember all of these or have much of a dog in the fight. In some ways this book feels like Mark’s resume and he goes on at length at how much he accomplished as secretary of defense.
I was unexpectedly interested in the behind-the-scenes thinking of how Mark was preparing the DoD to match China in 2035+ time frame, adjusting troop deployments, considering the variety of tools available to handle international incidents, negotiating with foreign heads of state over military base placement, etc. all of that global hegemony stuff that makes up Americas bonkers foreign policy - you get to see how the sausage is made.
So I came into this book hoping for spice, got a little bit of that but mostly enjoyed the look at how American foreign policy is actualized.
It is quite a long book, and it’s full of brave officers “doing the right thing” by commissioning studies into the feasibility of troop movements, so I am only doing 4 stars as I think the audience may be narrow - just dorks like me.
Not as spicy as imagined but interesting government procedural
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Worth the read indeed
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A Sacred Oath
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