TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas E Ricks
AU  - RICKS (Thomas E)
TI  - FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
SN  - 159420103X
U1  - 956.70443 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - American History
KW  - Army of the Euphrates
N2  - Fiasco 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
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