INteresting.
Thanks for the post. This is a must read book. And thank you for your excellent review.
Great review, LS. There was much puzzlement when we backed off Fallujah. IT seemed pretty clear there had to be complications, but there was not enough coordinated information to figure it out. This book seems to do that. The dispersed communication lines are troublesome and, one hopes, have been resolved.
Methinks this book gives too-big of a wide-screen lens on the political mountain over the Marine's hil.
I also recommend reading Americas's Secret War by George "Stratfor" Friedman.
I read it a month ago after hearing the author Bing West on John Batchelor's radio show on WABC. Great book with greater insights into our dealings with Iraq and how screwed up of a situation it is. It's not as bad as the media makes it, but 100x more convoluted than it seems.
I am reading it now, it is an excellent book, mostly done aploitical, but slams libs a few times...I like it a lot!
BTS. must get the book
Good example of the multiple things Bush has to deal with at once while those at home, especially on FR, are screaming close the borders, just do it!, give us a real conservative judge so we can go to battle with the Dems!, slap China down!, why haven't we caught bin Laden, eliminate the Patriot Act!, and on and on, while at the same time the Dems are trying to impeach him and accusing him of lying. Through it all, he just plods on doing the right thing.
Just finished it, an excellent read. These days it seems that the "Fog of War" envelops Washington more than the battlefield.