Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq[In this book, the author offers an] account - explosive, shocking, and authoritative - of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq. [The book also offers] accounts of battles such as 2nd Fallujah and Tall Afar, whose names should take their place alongside two Jima and Porkchop Hill on a select list of honor.... Too many American and Iraqi lives have been lost, and too much of America's might and influence has been squandered, for these individuals to escape a fair reckoning. [This book] is that reckoning. -Dust jacket. |
Contents
A Bad Ending | 3 |
Containment and Its Discontents | 12 |
The Aftermath of 911 | 35 |
The War of Words | 46 |
The Silence of the Lambs | 85 |
Winning a Battle | 115 |
How to Create an Insurgency | 151 |
How to Create an Insurgency 11 | 177 |
The Army of the Euphrates Takes Stock | 301 |
The Marine Corps Files a Dissent | 311 |
The Surprise | 321 |
The Price Paid | 363 |
The Corrections | 374 |
Turnover | 390 |
Too Little Too Late? | 413 |
Betting Against History | 430 |
Cant Produce Anything | 203 |
Getting Tough | 214 |
The Descent into Abuse | 270 |
Notes | 441 |
Acknowledgments | 463 |
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