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ISBN: 9780544370487 Year: 2014 Publisher: Boston (Mass.) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Over a thirty-five year career, the author rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He participated in meetings with top level military and civilian players, where strategy was made and managed. At the same time, he regularly carried a rifle alongside rank-and-file soldiers in combat actions, unusual for a general. Now, as a witness to all levels of military command, he offers a unique assessment of these wars, from 9/11 to the final withdrawal from the region. Writing with hard-won experience and unflinching honesty, the author makes the firm case that in Iraq and in Afghanistan, we lost - but we didn't have to. Intelligence was garbled. Key decision makers were blinded by spreadsheets or theories. And, at the root of our failure, we never really understood our enemy.
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ISBN: 9780307959478 0307959473 0307959481 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf,
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