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David C. Hendrickson and Robert W. Tucker examine the contentious debate over the Iraq war and occupation, focusing on the critique that the Bush administration squandered an historic opportunity to reconstruct the Iraqi state because of various critical blunders in planning. Though they conclude that critics have made a number of telling points against the Bush administration’s conduct of the Iraq war, they argue that the most serious problems facing Iraq and its American occupiers—criminal anarchy and lawlessness, a raging insurgency, and a society divided into rival and antagonistic groups—were virtually inevitable consequences that flowed from the act of war itself. Military and civilian planners were culpable in failing to plan for certain tasks, but the most serious problems had no good solution. The authors draw attention to a variety of lessons, including the danger that the imperatives of “force protection” may sacrifice the broader political mission of U.S. forces...
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Revisions in Need of Revising: What Went Wrong in the Iraq War
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Strategic Studies Institute U. S, 2005
ISBN 10: 1584872195
ISBN 13: 9781584872191
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Revisions in Need of Revising: What Went Wrong in the Iraq War
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Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA, 2005
ISBN 10: 1584872195
ISBN 13: 9781584872191
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Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. vii, 36, [1] p. Endnotes. From an on-line posting: "The authors examine the contentious debate over the Iraq war and occupation, focusing on the critique that the Bush administration squandered an historic opportunity to reconstruct the Iraqi state. They argue that the most serious problems facing Iraq and its American occupiers criminal anarchy and lawlessness, a raging insurgency and a society divided into rival and antagonistic groups were virtually inevitable consequences that flowed from the act of war itself. David C. Hendrickson is Robert J. Fox Distinguished Service Professor at Colorado College. He has taught in the Political Science Department at Colorado College since 1983. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a review editor for Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1998. Dr. Hendrickson received his B.A. in history from Colorado College in 1976 and his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1982. The information was current when the work was published by SSI." Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Seller Inventory # 71098
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