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The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq

The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq Paperback - 2010

by Ricks, Thomas E

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Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005, "The Gamble" is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S. military that led to a radical shift in America's strategy.

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  • Title The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq
  • Author Ricks, Thomas E
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
  • Date 2010
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0143116916I3N10
  • ISBN 9780143116912 / 0143116916
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 6.62 x 0.93 in (21.59 x 16.81 x 2.36 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History, Military - 21st, Petraeus, David Howell - Military leadership
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.704

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Summary


Thomas E. Rick's news-breaking follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Fiasco

Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005, The Gamble is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S. military that led to a radical shift in America's strategy. Based on unprecedented real-time access to the military's entire chain of command, Ricks examines the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. His stunning conclusion, stated in the last line of the book, is that "the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered probably have not yet happened."



From the publisher

Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, where he has covered the U.S. military since 2000. Until the end of 1999, he held the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of Making the Corps and A Soldier's Duty.

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Citations

  • Choice, 08/01/2010, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 01/31/2010, Page 20

About the author

Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its "Future of War" project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, for which he writes the prizewinning blog The Best Defense. Ricks covered the U.S. military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he covered U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of several books, including The Generals, The Gamble, and the number one New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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