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Thomas ricks provides ample narrative to help us find out more. Interview, thomas ricks, author of the generals thomas ricks new book, the generals, is about what he sees as a decline of american military leadership and accountability. The american military adventure in iraq, was published in 2006 and soon became a. The paperback edition of fiasco includes a new postscript in which ricks looks back on the year since the books release, a year in which the intensity and frequency of attacks on american soldiers only increased and in which rickss challenging account became accepted as conventional wisdom, with many of the dissident officers in his story given the reins of leadership, although ricks still finds the prospects for the conflict grim. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. American military command from world war ii to today 2012. Rickss fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the american military invasion and occupation of iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key participants. Fiasco deals with the history of the iraq war from the planning phase to combat operations to 2006 and argues that the war was badly planned and executed.

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