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The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq from a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. Thomas E. Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for the <i>Washington Post</i>, puts forth in <i>Fiasco</i> a masterful reckoning with the planning & execution of the American military invasion & occupation of Iraq, now with a preface on recent developments. Ricks draws on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American personnel-including more than one hundred senior officers--& access to more than 30,000 pages of official documents, many of them never before made public. Tragically, it is an undeniable account--explosive, shocking & authoritative--of unsurpassed tactical success combined with unsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America's most powerful & honored civilian & military leaders.
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Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- Fiasco
- Subtitle
- The American Military Adventure in Iraq
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Thomas E. Ricks
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN10
- 0713999586
- ISBN13
- 9780713999587
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Politics, USA, Military History, Military Fiction, Wars, Journalism, American History, International Relations, Contemporary History, Near and Middle East, Iraq
- Description
- The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq from a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. Thomas E. Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for the <i>Washington Post</i>, puts forth in <i>Fiasco</i> a masterful reckoning with the planning & execution of the American military invasion & occupation of Iraq, now with a preface on recent developments. Ricks draws on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American personnel-including more than one hundred senior officers--& access to more than 30,000 pages of official documents, many of them never before made public. Tragically, it is an undeniable account--explosive, shocking & authoritative--of unsurpassed tactical success combined with unsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America's most powerful & honored civilian & military leaders.