FIASCO: THE AMERICAN MILITARY ADVENTURE IN IRAQ
by RICKS, THOMAS E.
List Price: HK$ 266.00
ˇ@ISBN
9781594201035
ˇ@Subject
HISTORY (NON-ASIAN)
ˇ@Publisher
PENGUIN PRESS USA
ˇ@Publication
2006
ˇ@Edition
Hardcover
ˇ@Version
Original
ˇ@Description
There are a number of American heroes in Fiasco, from wise commanders like generals Petraeus and Mattis and Col. McMaster, who didnˇ¦t need to be told to implement classic counterinsurgency strategies, to the many heroic men and women on the ground who sweated and bled to do the best they could after nor being prepared to fight the war they encountered. In the course of chronicling the war to mid-2006, Fiasco contains gripping accounts of battles such as 2nd Fallujah and Tall Afar, whose names should take their place alongside Iwo Jima and Porkchop Hill on a select list of honor. But effective tactics when harnessed to bad strategy equals military disaster, and in the end Fiascoˇ¦s judgment that some of Americaˇ¦s most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders were derelict in their duty proves inescapableˇK
