Revisions in Need of Revising: What Went Wrong in the Iraq War (Paperback)

David C. Hendrickson and Robert W. Tucker examine the contentious debate over the Iraq war and occupation, focusing on the critique that the Bush administration squandered an historic opportunity to reconstruct the Iraqi state because of various critical blunders in planning. Though they conclude that critics have made a number of telling points against the Bush administration's conduct of the Iraq war, they argue that the most serious problems facing Iraq and its American occupiers-criminal anarchy and lawlessness, a raging insurgency, and a society divided into rival and antagonistic groups-were virtually inevitable consequences that flowed from the act of war itself. Military and civilian planners were culpable in failing to plan for certain tasks, but the most serious problems had no good solution. The authors draw attention to a variety of lessons, including the danger that the imperatives of "force protection" may sacrifice the broader political mission of U.S. forces...

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Imprint:	Lulu.Com
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2014
Authors:	David C. Hendrickson • Robert W. Tucker • Strategic Studies Institute
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 3mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	44
ISBN-13:	978-1-312-32248-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General
LSN:	1-312-32248-9
Barcode:	9781312322486

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