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Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq
Jeffrey Record
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Description for Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq
Hardback. An analysis of the often contradictory reasons why President George W Bush went to war in Iraq and of the war's impact on future US armed intervention abroad. Drawing on various assessments of Bush's presidency, it contends that Bush's invasion of Iraq was more about the arrogance of post - Cold War American power than it was about Saddam Hussein. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS5; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
Wanting War is the first comprehensive analysis of the often contradictory reasons why President George W. Bush went to war in Iraq and of the war's impact on future U.S. armed intervention abroad. Though the White House sold the war as a necessity to eliminate an alleged Iraqi threat, other agendas were at play. Drawing on new assessments of George W. Bush's presidency, recent memoirs by key administration decision makers, and Jeffrey Record's own expertise on U.S. military interventions since World War II, Wanting War contends that Bush's invasion of Iraq was more about the arrogance ... Read more
Wanting War is the first comprehensive analysis of the often contradictory reasons why President George W. Bush went to war in Iraq and of the war's impact on future U.S. armed intervention abroad. Though the White House sold the war as a necessity to eliminate an alleged Iraqi threat, other agendas were at play. Drawing on new assessments of George W. Bush's presidency, recent memoirs by key administration decision makers, and Jeffrey Record's own expertise on U.S. military interventions since World War II, Wanting War contends that Bush's invasion of Iraq was more about the arrogance ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
475g
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597974370
SKU
V9781597974370
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About Jeffrey Record
Jeffrey Record is a professor of strategy at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of Bounding the Global War on Terrorism (2004), Dark Victory: America's Second War against Iraq(2004), and Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win (Potomac Books, Inc., 2007). He served in Vietnam as a pacification adviser and received his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins ... Read more
Reviews for Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq
Record's book is the first work on this subject to move beyond the blame game to set the decision for war in a broader historical context.
Antulio J. Echevarria II, director of research, U.S. Army War College
(10/31/2009) Record has produced an excellent interpretive analysis of the rationale for the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq.
Joint Force ... Read more
Antulio J. Echevarria II, director of research, U.S. Army War College
(10/31/2009) Record has produced an excellent interpretive analysis of the rationale for the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq.
Joint Force ... Read more