The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 - Hardcover

Ricks, Thomas E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594201978 ISBN 13: 9781594201974

Verlag: Penguin Pr, 2009

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Draws on extensive interviews with top officers in Iraq to document the war as it has unfolded in recent years, placing a focus on the unorthodox strategies of General David Petraeus, from his work with foreign advisors to the ways in which his officers disagreed with key decisions. 250,000 first printing.

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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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• Verlag: Penguin Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1594201978
• ISBN 13: 9781594201974
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 394
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