Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Ricks, Thomas E.

ISBN 10: 159420103X / ISBN 13: 9781594201035

Published by Penguin Press, New York, 2006

About this Item

"Effective military tactics when harnessed to bad strategy equals military disaster, and in the end the judgement that some of America's most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders were derelict in their duty proves inescapable. Too many American and Iraqi lives have been lost and too much of America's military might and influence have been squandered." Red boards with gold-color lettering on spine, xiv, 482 pp., photos, maps, with unclipped illustrated jacket. Minimal wear, no names or gift notes, clean text, tight binding, nice jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq
• Publisher: Penguin Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159420103X
• ISBN 13: 9781594201035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military

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Synopsis

A military chronicle of the Iraq war is a critical assessment of America's role as viewed from the firsthand perspectives of senior military officers that argues that the guerrilla insurgency that took place in the months after the fall of Saddam Hussein was avoidable and that officers who spoke against the war did so at the cost of their careers. 200,000 first printing.

About the Author

Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, where he has covered the U.S. military since 2000. Until the end of 1999, he held the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of Making the Corps and A Soldier's Duty.