| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 408 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Decision making.
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Iraq War (2003-2011) |
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Decision making. |
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Campaigns.
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Counterinsurgency -- Iraq -- History.
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Counterinsurgency. |
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Iraq. |
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History. |
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Military planning -- United States.
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United States. |
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United States -- Military policy -- Decision making.
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Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
2003- |
| Subject |
Military planning. |
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HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011). |
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Military policy. |
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HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-) |
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Military campaigns. |
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Military policy -- Decision making. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 2003 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Sayle, Timothy A., editor.
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Engel, Jeffrey A., editor.
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Brands, Hal, 1983- editor.
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Inboden, William, 1972- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Last card. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501715181 (DLC) 2019009158 (OCoLC)1079849438 |
| ISBN |
9781501715198 electronic book |
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1501715194 electronic book |
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9781501715204 electronic book |
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1501715208 electronic book |
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9781501715181 hardcover |
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1501715186 hardcover |
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