To Start a War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Start a War write by Robert Draper. This book was released on 2021-07-27. To Start a War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Essential . . . one for the ages . . . a must read for all who care about presidential power.” —The Washington Post “Authoritative . . . The most comprehensive account yet of that smoldering wreck of foreign policy, one that haunts us today.” —LA Times One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020 To Start a War paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. Robert Draper’s fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning. In the spirit of Barbara W. Tuchman’s The Guns of August and Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective scurrying for evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false—evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.
Wanting War
Wanting War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wanting War write by Jeffrey Record. This book was released on 2010. Wanting War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A complete explanation of the U.S. decision to go to war in 2003.
The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution
The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution write by Keith L. Shimko. This book was released on 2010-04-30. The Iraq Wars and America's Military Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a comprehensive study of the Iraq Wars in the context of the revolution in military affairs debate.
The Iraq War
The Iraq War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Iraq War write by Williamson Murray. This book was released on 2005-09-28. The Iraq War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this unprecedented account of the intensive air and ground operations in Iraq, two of America's most distinguished military historians bring clarity and depth to the first major war of the new millennium. Reaching beyond the blaring headlines, embedded videophone reports, and daily Centcom briefings, Williamson Murray and Robert Scales analyze events in light of past military experiences, present battleground realities, and future expectations. The Iraq War puts the recent conflict into context. Drawing on their extensive military expertise, the authors assess the opposing aims of the Coalition forces and the Iraqi regime and explain the day-to-day tactical and logistical decisions of infantry and air command, as British and American troops moved into Basra and Baghdad. They simultaneously step back to examine long-running debates within the U.S. Defense Department about the proper uses of military power and probe the strategic implications of those debates for America's buildup to this war. Surveying the immense changes that have occurred in America's armed forces between the Gulf conflicts of 1991 and 2003--changes in doctrine as well as weapons--this volume reveals critical meanings and lessons about the new "American way of war" as it has unfolded in Iraq.
The Iran-Iraq War
The Iran-Iraq War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Iran-Iraq War write by Williamson Murray. This book was released on 2014-09-04. The Iran-Iraq War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive account of the Iran-Iraq War through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders.
