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Decision making in Operation Iraqi Freedom : removing Saddam Hussein by force / Steven Metz, John R. Martin, executive editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Metz, Steven, 1956- author.
- Series:
- Operation Iraqi Freedom key decisions monograph series ; v. 1.
- Operation Iraqi Freedom key decisions monograph series ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006.
- Hussein, Saddam.
- Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Iraq--Baghdad.
- Trials (Crimes against humanity).
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Iraq--History, Military.
- Iraq.
- Iraq--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Iraq--Baghdad.
- Genre:
- Military history
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 67 pages)
- Other Title:
- Removing Saddam Hussein by force
- Place of Publication:
- Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010.
- Summary:
- One of the defining characteristics of strategy making in the Bush administration was the treatment of any decision involving transnational terrorism as a crisis with a limited slate of participants and a minimal role for professional expertise except on operational and technical considerations. When the administration broke from its predecessors and chose to approach the Iraq issue as part of the war on terrorism rather than as simply an element of regional stability, it shifted to a crisis decision mode. This was unusual since the Iraq conflict did not meet the usual requirements for a crisis: a very high threat and limited decision time. This initial volume provides a review of decisions made by senior military and civilian leaders during the several years thus far of the war in Iraq, and focuses on the how and why certain decisions were made.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Decisionmakers
- Defining the issue
- Decision shapers
- Political and strategic context
- An iterative decision
- Facts
- Assumptions
- Options
- The decisionmaking process
- Analysis and conclusions.
- Notes:
- PDF version; title from title screen (viewed Mar. 30, 2010).
- "February 2010."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-67).
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Decisionmaking in Operation Iraqi Freedom
- ISBN:
- 1584874260
- 9781584874263
- OCLC:
- 587608544
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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