The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Thomas E. RicksAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-01-06Pages:416
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143116912ISBN-10:143116916UPC:9780143116912Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, MilitaryBook Topic:Iraq War (2003-2011), United StatesSize:8.50 x 6.62 x 0.93 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SC9BX9R9Q1
Thomas E. Rick's news-breaking follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Fiasco Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005, The Gamble is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S. military that led to a radical shift in America's strategy. Based on unprecedented real-time access to the military's entire chain of command, Ricks examines the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. His stunning conclusion, stated in the last line of the book, is that "the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered probably have not yet happened."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143116912ISBN-10:143116916UPC:9780143116912Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, MilitaryBook Topic:Iraq War (2003-2011), United StatesSize:8.50 x 6.62 x 0.93 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SC9BX9R9Q1
Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its "Future of War" project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, for which he writes the prizewinning blog The Best Defense. Ricks covered the U.S. military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he covered U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of several books, including The Generals, The Gamble, and the number one New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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