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Iraq and Back - Inside the War to Win the Peace (Paperback)
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Iraq and Back - Inside the War to Win the Peace (Paperback)
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In April 2003, soon after Operation Iraqi Freedom had been declared
a success, President Bush sent retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Jay
Garner to Iraq to rebuild the country. As Garner's executive
officer, the author of this book was part of the senior leadership
circle charged with three tasks. They were to reconstruct Iraq's
infrastructure, provide humanitarian assistance, and lay the
foundation for a democratic process to take hold. But not long
after their arrival in the rubble and ruin of Iraq, the political,
military, and economic wheels ground to a halt and theirs became
mission improbable. In this book, Air Force Colonel Kim Olson tells
how and why. Readers are privy to the candid discussions of U.S.
generals frustrated by operating in a policy void. They sit at the
table with Iraqi leaders who warn of an impending insurgency if the
proclamations crafted by ill-informed and arrogant policy makers
are implemented. And they share Olson's fear as Saddam's death
squads attempt to assassinate her in an explosion of bullets. This
gripping, firsthand account of what went wrong is seen from Olson's
unique point of view as a senior female military officer, pilot,
wife, and mother. Many of the stories she tells are known to only
the handful of people involved, including a mission to rescue two
Iraqi women and details of early meetings with tribal leaders to
discuss building a coalition government--an effort quashed by
Garner's successor. Her haunting descriptions of Shiite families
searching for loved ones in Saddam's killing fields and
malnourished children in the town of Umn Qasr untouched by the
International Oil-for-Food Program, will remain with readers long
after they close the book. From the decisions of political leaders
and military commanders to everyday encounters with the Iraqi
people and informal conversations with soldiers, such a wealth of
honest, insider information is rare. No other author weaves
together military, political, and humanistic insights so
effectively.
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