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Books of The Times: Ground War: The Iraq Surge Grunts Knew

Source: The New York Times

Baghdad : Iraq | 2 months ago

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The Iraq war in David Finkel’s heart-stopping new book is not the Bush administration’s misguided exercise in hubris, incompetence and ideological fervor meticulously chronicled by Thomas Ricks in his benchmark 2006 study, “Fiasco.” It isn’t the bungled occupation run out of the Green...

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Books of The Times: Ground War: The Iraq Surge Grunts Knew

News Source: The New York Times | 2 months ago

The Iraq war in David Finkel’s heart-stopping new book is not the Bush administration’s misguided exercise in hubris, incompetence and ideological fervor meticulously chronicled by Thomas Ricks in his benchmark 2006 study, “Fiasco.” It...