Blunder : Britain's war in Iraq / Patrick Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Patrick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Participation, British.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Iraq Inquiry (Great Britain).

Iraq.

Iraq War (2003-2011).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This work is a 'post Chilcot' history of Britain's decision to go to war in Iraq in March 2003. Deploying the large number of primary documents and retrospective testimonies of participants, Blunder reconstructs the assumptions underlying decisions, the policy 'world' that participants inhabited 2001-2003, and the way decisions were made. Contrary to much of the existing literature, this volume puts ideas in the centre of the story. As the text argues, Britain's war in Iraq was caused by bad ideas that were dogmatically held.

Contents:

Introduction

Warpath

Breaking states: the ideological roots of regime change

Atlantic ambitions

Weighing the arguments

Virtue runs amok: how realism can help

Epilogue: two speeches.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-253535-8

0-19-253534-X

0-19-184575-2