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

"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:Sayle, Timothy A. (Herausgeber)
Engel, Jeffrey A., 1972- (Herausgeber)
Brands, Hal, 1983- (Herausgeber)
Inboden, William (Herausgeber)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Ithaca [New York] ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019
Subjects:
USA
Table of 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 Iraq surge / Kori Schake
A long and winding road / Richard H. Immerman
The President as policy entrepreneur / Colin Dueck