Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq.(Book review)

From: Parameters | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. By Thomas E. Ricks. New York: Penguin Press, 2006. 482 pages. $27.95. Reviewed by Richard Halloran, onetime lieutenant of airborne infantry and a former military correspondent of The New York Times.

By the time this review appears, the book titled "Fiasco" by Thomas Ricks, a military correspondent for The Washington Post, will have taken a well-deserved place on the lengthening shelf of excellent critiques on the war in Iraq. The author wastes no time in setting his pen to cut a wide swath through Washington and Baghdad, ...

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