Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq / Thomas E. Ricks.

By: Ricks, Thomas EMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2006Description: xiv, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN: 159420103X; 9781594201035; 9780143038917; 0143038915; 0713999586; 9780713999587Report number: 2006045357Subject(s): Iraq War, 2003-2011 | United States -- History, Military -- 21st century | Iraq War, 2003- | United States -- History, Military -- 21st century | Geschichte 2003-2006 | Iraq War, 2003- | Iraq War, 2003- Personal narratives, American | United States History, Military 21st centuryGenre/Form: Military history. DDC classification: 956.7044/3 LOC classification: DS79.76 | .R535 2006
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.
Summary: [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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956.7044/CRA The last true story I'll ever tell : 956.7044/ISI Hubris : 956.7044/PHI Losing Iraq : 956.7044/RIC Fiasco : 956.7044/SHA Allies : 956.7044/WOO State of denial / 956.704438/KEY The deserter's tale :

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-462) and index.

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.

[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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