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Blunder - Britain's War in Iraq (Hardcover)
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Blunder - Britain's War in Iraq (Hardcover)
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Why did Britain go to war in Iraq in 2003? Existing accounts stress
dodgy dossiers, intelligence failures, and the flaws of individual
leaders. Deploying the large number of primary documents now
available, this book puts ideas at the centre of the story. As the
book argues, Britain's war in Iraq was caused by bad ideas that
were dogmatically held and widely accepted. Three ideas in
particular formed the war's intellectual foundations: the notion of
the undeterrable, fanatical rogue state; the vision that the West's
path to security is to break and remake states; and the conceit
that by paying the 'blood price', Britain could secure influence in
Washington DC. These issues matter, because although the Iraq War
happened fifteen years ago, it is still with us. As well as its
severe consequences for regional and international security, the
ideas that powered the war persist in Western security debate. If
all wars are fought twice, first on the battlefield and the second
time in memory, this book enters the battle over what Iraq means
now, and what we should learn.
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