War and decision : inside the Pentagon at the dawn of the War on terrorism /

Of all the players in the planning and evolution of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism, few were more integral--or more controversial--than Douglas Feith, the chief strategist on Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon policy team. A highly influential international policy analyst for more than...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feith, Douglas J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2008]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • This means war
  • Trajectory
  • Change the way we live, or change the way they live
  • Steady in Afghanistan
  • Easier to topple than rebuild
  • Why Iraq?
  • Risks of action and inaction
  • Discord in Washington
  • Iraq planning : the who and why
  • United Nations bound
  • Losing ground on the diplomatic front
  • Final preparations for war and for aftermath
  • Saddam's regime falls
  • "From liberation to occupation"
  • The taint of occupation
  • Lessons and debate.