David’s Reviews > Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War > Status Update

Sec Def Gates' assessment in his book "Duty" on Ukraine only months before it became a crisis: "Trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching. The roots of the Russian Empire trace back to Kiev in the ninth century, so that was an especially monumental provocation. Were the Europeans, much less the Americans, willing to send their sons and daughters to defend Ukraine or Georgia? Hardly."