The Gamble by Thomas E Ricks

The Gamble by Thomas E Ricks

Thomas E. Rick's news-breaking follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Fiasco

Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005, The Gamble is the definitive account of the insurgency within the U.S. military that led to a radical shift in America's strategy. Based on unprecedented real-time access to the military's entire chain of command, Ricks examines the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with itself, the surge was launched, and a very different war began. His stunning conclusion, stated in the last line of the book, is that the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered probably have not yet happened.

Thomas E. Ricks is a national security adviser at the New America Foundation and a member of the Future of War project. He was a fellow at the Center for a New American Security before joining Foreign Policy magazine as a contributing editor, where he publishes the award-winning blog The Best Defense. He was a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams that covered the United States. Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq all have military activities. He is the author of many books, including The Generals, The Gamble, and Fiasco, which was a Pulitzer Prize nominee and was the number one New York Times bestseller. Churchill and Orwell: The Battle For Freedom, his most recent book, is a New York Times bestseller.

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ISBN 13	9781594201974
ISBN 10	1594201978
Title	The Gamble
Author	Thomas E Ricks
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Press Hc, The
Year published	2009-02-10
Number of pages	400
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