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Genre/Form: | Military history |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas E Ricks |
ISBN: | 159420103X 9781594201035 9780143038917 0143038915 0713999586 9780713999587 0143059068 9780143059066 |
OCLC Number: | 67375172 |
Performer(s): | Read by James Lurie. |
Description: | xiv, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Containment -- A bad ending -- Containment and its discontents -- This changes everything: the aftermath of 9/11 -- The war of words -- The run-up -- The silence of the lambs -- Into Iraq -- Winning a battle -- How to create an insurgency (I) -- How to create an insurgency (II) -- The CPA: "can't produce anything" -- Getting tough -- The descent into abuse -- The long term -- "The Army of the Euphrates" takes stock -- The Marine Corps files a dissent -- The surprise -- The price paid -- The corrections -- Turnover -- Too little too late? -- Betting against history. |
Responsibility: | Thomas E. Ricks. |
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Abstract:
[In this book, the author offers an] account - explosive, shocking, and authoritative - of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq. [The book also offers] accounts of battles such as 2nd Fallujah and Tall Afar, whose names should take their place alongside two Jima and Porkchop Hill on a select list of honor ... Too many American and Iraqi lives have been lost, and too much of America's might and influence has been squandered, for these individuals to escape a fair reckoning. [This book] is that reckoning.-Dust jacket.
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