President Obama may have won the Nobel Peace Prize, but, as commander-in-chief, he made sure that his secretary of defense knew where he stood on war.

“I’m no peacenik,” the president said, according to former director of the Central Intelligence Agency Robert Gates. He described the conversation in which Obama made that statement in a recent Popular Mechanics interview.

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