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Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Rickss Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, based on the unprecedented candor of key participants.
The American military is a tightly sealed community, and few outsiders have reason to know that a great many senior officers view the Iraq war with incredulity and dismay. But many officers have shared their anger with renowned military reporter Thomas E. Ricks, and in Fiasco, Ricks combines these astonishing on-the-record military accounts with his own extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to create a spellbinding account of an epic disaster.
As many in the military publicly acknowledge here for the first time, the guerrilla insurgency that exploded several months after Saddams fall was not foreordained. In fact, to a shocking degree, it was created by the folly of the wars architects. But the officers who did raise their voices against the miscalculations, shortsightedness, and general failure of the war effort were generally crushed, their careers often ended. A willful blindness gripped political and military leaders, and dissent was not tolerated.
There are a number of heroes in Fiasco-inspiring leaders from the highest levels of the Army and Marine hierarchies to the men and women whose skill and bravery led to battlefield success in towns from Fallujah to Tall Afar-but again and again, strategic incoherence rendered tactical success meaningless. There was never any question that the U.S. military would topple Saddam Hussein, but as Fiasco shows there was also never any real thought about what would come next. This blindness has ensured the Iraq war a place in history as nothing less than a fiasco. Fair, vivid, and devastating, Fiasco is a book whose tragic verdict feels definitive.
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THE AMERICAN MILITARY ADVENTURE IN IRAQ
THE PENGUIN PRESS
New York
2006
THE PENGUIN PRESS
Published by the Penguin Group
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First published in 2006 by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Copyright Thomas E. Ricks, 2006
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Ricks, Thomas E.
Fiasco : the American military adventure in Iraq / Thomas E. Ricks.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-1012-0140-4.
1. Iraq war, 20032. United StatesHistory, military21st century. I. Title.
DS79.76.R535 2006
956.7044' 3dc22 2006045357
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For the war dead
Know your enemy, know yourself,
One hundred battles, one hundred victories.
S UN T ZU , ancient Chinese military strategist,
as quoted in Jeffrey Races War Comes to Long An
The Sunni Triangle: Heart of the Insurgency
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION (20024)
President George W. Bush
Vice President Richard B. Cheney
I. Lewis Scooter Libby, Cheneys chief of staff and national security adviser
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage
CIA Director George Tenet
AT THE PENTAGON
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz
Under Secretary for Policy Douglas Feith
Lawrence Di Rita, chief Pentagon spokesman
Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army Lt. Gen. George Casey, director of the Joint Staff; later replaced Sanchez in Iraq
Marine Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, director of operations, the Joint Staff
Gen. Eric Shinseki, chief of staff of the U.S. Army
Richard Perle, chairman, Defense Policy Board
Ret. Marine Col. Gary Anderson, consultant to Wolfowitz
U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND (20034)
Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks, commander; retired mid-2003
Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid, deputy commander; promoted to replace Franks
Air Force Maj. Gen. Victor Renuart, director of operations
Army Col. John Agoglia, deputy chief of plans
Gregory Hooker, senior intelligence analyst for Iraq
Army Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, commander, Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC), the ground component of the invasion force
Army Col. Kevin Benson, chief planner at CFLCC
IN IRAQ (20034)
Ret. Army Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, chief of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, first senior U.S. civilian official in Iraq
Coalition Provisional Authority
Amb. L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer III, chief, Coalition Provisional Authority; replaced Garner
Ret. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Kellogg, Jr., deputy to Bremer
Army Col. Paul Hughes, strategic adviser
Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, first chief of training for Iraqi army
Marine Col. T. X. Hammes, staff, Iraqi security forces training program
Keith Mines, CPA representative in al Anbar province
Military
Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, senior U.S. commander
Army Brig. Gen. Barbara Fast, senior intelligence officer for Sanchez
Ret. Army Col. Stuart Herrington, consultant to Fast
Army Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, commander, 101st Airborne Division, later returned to oversee the training of Iraqi forces
Col. Joe Anderson, a brigade commander in the 101st Airborne
Maj. Isaiah Wilson, first served as an Army historian, later as strategist for Petraeus
Army Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack, Jr., commander, 82nd Airborne Division
Col. Arnold Bray, commander of a brigade of the 82nd Airborne
Army Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander, 4th Infantry Division
Army Col. David Hogg, a brigade commander in 4th ID
Army Lt. Col. Christopher Holshek, commander of a civil affairs unit attached to Hogg's brigade
Army Lt. Col. Steve Russell, commander of an infantry battalion in the 4th ID
Army Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman, another of Odierno's battalion commanders
Army Lt. Col. Allen West, commander of a 4th ID artillery battalion
Army Lt. Col. David Poirier, commander of MP battalion attached to 4th ID
Army Col. Teddy Spain, commander of U.S. military police forces in Baghdad
Army Capt. Lesley Kipling, communications officer on Spain's staff
Army Brig. Gen. Martin Dempsey, commander, 1st Armored Division
Army Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, commander of U.S. military detention operations
Army Col. David Teeples, commander, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
Maj. Gen. James Mattis, commander, 1st Marine Division
Army Col. Alan King, civil affairs officer, 3rd Infantry Division; later a tribal affairs specialist at CPA
Other
David Kay, head, Iraq Survey Group, U.S. government organization searching for weapons of mass destruction
Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress, an exile political group
IN IRAQ (2004 AND LATER)
Civilian
Amb. John Negroponte, replaced Bremer
Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad, replaced Negroponte
Military
Gen. Casey, promoted and replaced Sanchez
Kalev Sepp, adviser to Casey on counterinsurgency
Army Maj. Gen. John Batiste, commander 1st Infantry Division
Army Capt. Oscar Estrada, civil affairs officer attached to 1st ID in Baqubah
Army Col. H. R. McMaster, commander, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
Col. Clarke Lethin, chief of operations, 1st Mari ne Division
Col. John Toolan, commander, 1st Marine Regiment
Others appearing frequently
Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, former chief, U.S. Central Command
Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, senior Democrat, House Armed Services Committee
Patrick Clawson, deputy director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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