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Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq / Thomas E. Ricks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2006.Description: xiv, 482 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 159420103X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.7044/3 22
LOC classification:
  • DS79.76 .R535 2006
Contents:
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.
Review: "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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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.

"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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