Blind Into Baghdad

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"The Iraq imbroglio has produced some amazing and, for war supporters,
painful essays----"Blind Into Baghdad" show[s] that most of what hap-
pened in postwar Iraq was predicted prewar by government analysts. It's just that their reports were suppressed or ignored by the people making the décisions." —David Brooks, The New York Times
In the autumn of 2002, Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows wrote an article predicting many of the problems America would face if it invaded Iraq. After events confirmed many of his prédictions, Fallows went on to write some of the most acclaimed, award-winning journalism on the planning and execution of the war, much of which has been assigned as required reading within the U.S. military.
In Blind Into Baghdad, Fallows takes us from the planning of the war through the struggles of reconstruction. With unparalleled access and incisive analysis, he shows us how many of the difficulties were antic-ipated by experts whom the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"The Iraq imbroglio has produced some amazing and, for war supporters,
painful essays----"Blind Into Baghdad" show[s] that most of what hap-
pened in postwar Iraq was predicted prewar by government analysts. It's just that their reports were suppressed or ignored by the people making the décisions." —David Brooks, The New York Times
In the autumn of 2002, Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows wrote an article predicting many of the problems America would face if it invaded Iraq. After events confirmed many of his prédictions, Fallows went on to write some of the most acclaimed, award-winning journalism on the planning and execution of the war, much of which has been assigned as required reading within the U.S. military.
In Blind Into Baghdad, Fallows takes us from the planning of the war through the struggles of reconstruction. With unparalleled access and incisive analysis, he shows us how many of the difficulties were antic-ipated by experts whom the administration ignored. Fallows examines how the war in Iraq undercut the larger "war on terror" and why Iraq stili had no army two years after the invasion. In a sobering conclusion, he interviews soldiers, spies, and diplomats to imagine how a war in Iran might play out. This is an important and essential book to understand where and how the war went wrong, and what it means for America. Vissza