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The last card : inside George W. Bush's decision to surge in Iraq
- Title
- 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.
- Publication
- Ithaca [New York] ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- viii, 408 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "An oral history of President George W. Bush's decision to surge troops to Iraq, accompanied by scholarly analysis by leading scholars of international security and presidential history"--
- Subjects
- Counterinsurgency
- United States
- Iraq
- Military planning
- Military planning > United States
- History
- Military policy > Decision making
- Counterinsurgency > Iraq > History
- Decision making
- Military campaigns
- United States > Military policy > Decision making
- Politics and government
- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Since 2003
- Iraq > Politics and government > 2003-
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Decision making
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Campaigns
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 2006 Iraq surge / Kori Schake -- The Bush administration's decision to surge in Iraq : a long and winding road / Richard H. Immerman -- The President as policy entrepreneur : George W. Bush and the 2006 Iraq strategy review / Colin Dueck.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-9865
- ISBN
- 9781501715181
- 1501715186
- LCCN
- 2019009158
- 40029360875
- OCLC
- 1079849438
- Title
- 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.
- Publisher
- Ithaca [New York] ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 2003
- Added Author
- Sayle, Timothy A., editor.Engel, Jeffrey A., editor.Brands, Hal, 1983- editor.Inboden, William, 1972- editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Last card. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501715198 (DLC) 2019009537
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029360875
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-9865