NYT Book Review of 'The Gamble'
Source: The New York Times
Author(s): Elsa Dixler
Original Post: NYT Book Review of The Gamble
Type: News Article
Date: 01/26/2010
Topic(s): Iraq, Terrorism & Irregular Warfare, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Military Forces & Operations
Project(s): The Iraq Inheritance
People: Thomas E. Ricks
Author(s): Elsa Dixler
Original Post: NYT Book Review of The Gamble
Type: News Article
Date: 01/26/2010
THE GAMBLE: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, by Thomas E. Ricks. (Penguin, $17.)
Picking up where Ricks’s devastating “Fiasco” (2006) left off, this book examines the surge, particularly its new counterinsurgency tactics. In contrast to Bob Woodward, who saw the surge’s origins in the White House in the fall of 2006, Ricks, who covered the military for The Washington Post from 2000 to 2008, argues that the Bush administration might never have contemplated the change in strategy had the Democrats not won the midterm elections that November. Ricks predicts that “the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered probably have not yet happened.”
Related:Topic(s): Iraq, Terrorism & Irregular Warfare, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Military Forces & Operations
Project(s): The Iraq Inheritance
People: Thomas E. Ricks
