Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 | Thomas E. Ricks

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 | Thomas E. Ricks | Fantastic

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	Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 Thomas E. Ricks Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 316 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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 Washington Post, puts forth in Fiasco a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and 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?and 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, and authoritative?of unsurpassed tactical success combined with unsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America?s most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders.

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Best Documentation of Iraq War to date

No, I have not been to Iraq in any capacity, but this book has an intensely real feeling to it. Unlike "Cobra II" which rambles a bit and tends to focus in on the details of battle too much (that is still a good book to read), "Fiasco" can be devoured in one sitting by the reader, giving them a bird's eye view of the whole mess that feels very real, and will fill in a lot of the blanks for Americans who had been relying on the media for an idea of what is going on over there.

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What a book. The true behind the scenes revelation of how and why the Iraq war happened. No BS just the facts.

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Pleasantly Surprised

Since 2003, the people who had negative thoughts about Iraq were usually the people who were not very well informed. Although this book holds a more liberal point of view, the technique that Ricks' uses in his countless interviews with everyone from Privates to 4 Star Generals was amazing. He rarely inserts his own opinion in the book and lets the information speak for itself...so that the reader can either disagree or agree with the information presented to him/her. This is a great read for anyone who is interested in the war in Iraq, anyone who loves military reading, or anyone who is being deployed to Iraq. It holds a lot of good information on why we have been failing over there and what we can do to better our chances of stopping the insurgency. Great read, I strongly recommend it.

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The story of an incredible American folly

Amazing that such a book could be written about a war that is still going on. The existence of this book, if not its horrifying contents, have given me back some faith in the freedom we are (or should be) fighting for.

Clearly the recent "surge" that has brought about such a significant reduction in violence in Iraq is based upon all the costly lessons the Americans learned in the first four calamitous years of the Iraq War, as set out in this book. It would be a terrible waste if all those gains were to be lost by US domestic political opportunism, which might pull the troops out too soon. The Americans already lost one war they had already won on the ground (Vietnam) due to misguided domestic pressures, I hope they don't do it again.

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A Tough Book To Write

In twenty years' time it may be possible at last to write something approaching a definitive history. Current writing has a provisional air to it, and this book is no exception.

having said that, read the book with a grain of sand or two (or even salt . .) and see what it means to you in 2018.

I've been re-reading some of my old Ramparts magazines . . . man we were dumb and naive back then (and didn't even know it!)

ciao//gurkha

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