01307nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200240008810000190011224500520013126000340018330000300021736500200024752007660026765000210103365000260105470000210108020211108162810.0211108b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a159420103X  cAL  aeng  223a956.70443bRICF  aThomas E Ricks  aFIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq  aNew YorkbPenguin Pressc2006  axiv,482 p.bHBc24x16 cm.  b27.95c$d27.95  aFiasco is a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq through mid-2006, now with a postscript 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.uttps://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=globaltides  aAmerican History  aArmy of the Euphrates  aRICKS (Thomas E)