In short, based on my experience serving seven Presidents, as former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and now as Secretary of Defense, I am here to make the case for strengthening our capacity to use 'soft' power and for better integrating it with 'hard' power.
Gates emphasizes the need for integrating soft power with military strength.
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I soon learned that the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months, not years, was to take control of the problem myself through special task forces and ad hoc processes.
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