Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq
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Fiasco, The American Military Adventure In Iraq is a bestselling book by Thomas E. Ricks. It was published in 2006.
Ricks is a lifelong Pentagon and war correspondant who currently works for the Washington Post, and much of the book is based on interviews with military personnel involved in the planning and execution of the Iraq War.
Mr. Ricks’s narrative is based on hundreds of interviews and more than 37,000 pages of documents, and many of the book’s most scorching assessments of the White House and Pentagon’s conduct of the war come from members of the uniformed military and official military reports."[1]
The first third of the book reviews the political beginnings of the War. The rest of the book is "groundbreaking"[2] according to the Harvard Crimson:
The interviews with top generals and Pentagon officials are stunning, and reveal a war that, horrifyingly, had literally no end-goal, let alone a strategy for achieving that goal. To this day, the war has no end-goal, and therefore can have no “end” in sight.
The on-the-ground tales of torture and violence are terrifying, but even more terrifying is Ricks’ conclusion that the Bush White House wasn’t listening to generals who told them a war would need far more troops than the number Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ended up sending to Iraq.[3]
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- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (July 25, 2006). From Planning to Warfare to Occupation, How Iraq Went Wrong. The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved on January 4, 2007.
- ^ Riesman, Abe J. (Sept 27, 2006). Winging the Invasion of Iraq?. The Harvard Crimson. The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved on January 4, 2007.
- ^ Riesman, Abe J. (Sept 27, 2006). Winging the Invasion of Iraq?. The Harvard Crimson. The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved on January 4, 2007.
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