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The last card : inside George W. Bush's decision to surge in Iraq / edited by Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey A. Engel, Hal Brands, and William Inboden.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Decision making.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Campaigns.
- Counterinsurgency--Iraq--History.
- Counterinsurgency.
- Military planning--United States.
- Military planning.
- Military policy.
- Decision making.
- History.
- United States.
- United States--Military policy--Decision making.
- Iraq--Politics and government--2003-.
- Iraq.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 408 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- America's war in Iraq : 2003-2005
- This strategy is not working : January-June 2006
- Together forward? : June-August 2006
- Silos and stovepipes : September-October 2006
- Setting the stage : early November 2006
- A sweeping internal review : mid-late November 2006
- Choosing to surge : December 2006
- What kind of surge? : late December 2006-January 2007
- How "the surge" came to be / Stephen Hadley, Peter Feaver, and Meghan O'Sullivan
- Iraq, Vietnam, and the meaning of victory / Andrew Preston
- Decisions and politics / Robert Jervis
- Blood, treasure, and time : strategy-making for the surge / Richard Betts
- Strategy and "the surge" / Joshua Rovner
- Civil military relations and the Iraq surge / Kori Schake
- A long and winding road / Richard H. Immerman
- The President as policy entrepreneur / Colin Dueck
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 08, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Last card.
- ISBN:
- 9781501715198
- 1501715194
- 9781501715204
- 1501715208
- Publisher Number:
- 99983713082
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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