TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ricks,Thomas E.
TI  - Fiasco: the American military adventure in Iraq 
SN  - 159420103X
AV  - DS79.76 .R535 2006
U1  - 956.7044/3 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - United States
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Pt. I; Containment --; 1; A bad ending --; 2; Containment and its discontents --; 3; This changes everything : the aftermath of 9/11 --; 4; The war of words --; 5; The run-up --; 6; The silence of the lambs --; Pt. II; Into Iraq --; 7; Winning a battle --; 8; How to create an insurgency (I) --; 9; How to create an insurgency (II) --; 10; The CPA : "can't produce anything" --; 11; Getting tough --; 12; The descent into abuse --; Pt. III; The long term --; 13; "The army of the Euphrates" takes stock --; 14; The Marine Corps files a dissent --; 15; The surprise --; 16; The price paid --; 17; The corrections --; 18; Turnover --; 19; Too little too late? --; Afterword : batting against history
N2  - "Drawing on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American military personnel, including more than one hundred senior officers, and access to more than thirty thousand pages of official documents, many of them never before made public, Thomas E. Ricks has written the definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq."--BOOK JACKET
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