Worthy Fights

Worthy Fights: A memoir of Leadership in War and Peace Hardcover – October 7, 2014

Author: Leon Panetta | ISBN: 1594205965

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Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace – October 7, 2014

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• Hardcover: 512 pages


• Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (October 7, 2014)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 1594205965


• ISBN-13: 978-1594205965


• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.6 x 9.6 inches


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Overall impression: Like a stone skipping across water. Lots of history, very little depth, almost nothing that has not been extensively reported elsewhere. There are a couple of nuggets that I found interesting.

The first part of the book is a chronological history of Mr. Panetta’s career. He highlights those legislative and administrative controversies and successes that were of particular importance to him. There is little in the way of analysis. I found the style more I was there, here is what I did, and here is what happened.

In his discussion of the Abdulmutallab incident (the underwear bomber) Mr. Panetta points out that Abdulmutallab eventually gave up valuable intelligence information without being subject to enhanced interrogation techniques. Since Mr. Panetta is not in favor of such techniques the inference is that they are not necessary. I believe this is projecting the universe from a sample of one and really doesn’t enlighten the issue. Again, my desire for more of a policy argument and why Mr. Panetta holds his views.

IMHO Mr. Panetta starts to get interesting when he discusses the Balawi incident. (Balawi was belived to be a double agent working for the CIA. He was, it turned out, a suicide bomber who killed 7 CIA agents and additional non-US personnel.) Even so, while noting that the Agency performed a postmortem to figure out what went wrong Mr. Panetta focuses on the emotional impact rather than the lessons learned.

Mr. Panetta goes into some length describing the process around the assault that killed Osama bin Laden. After the decision is reached he points out:

“I was struck by the enormity of what the president had just approved. The lives of two dozen men would be at risk …

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