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.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.