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War And Decision
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Author : Douglas J. Feith
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
War And Decision written by Douglas J. Feith and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the years since the attacks of September 11, 2001, journalists, commentators, and others have published accounts of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism. But no senior Pentagon official has offered an inside view of those years, or has challenged the prevailing narrative of that war—until now. Douglas J. Feith, the head of the Pentagon's Policy organization, was a key member of Donald Rumsfeld's inner circle as the Administration weighed how to protect the nation from another 9/11. In War and Decision, he puts readers in the room with President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, General Tommy Franks, and other key players as the Administration devised its strategy and war plans. Drawing on thousands of previously undisclosed documents, notes, and other written sources, Feith details how the Administration launched a global effort to attack and disrupt terrorist networks; how it decided to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime; how it came to impose an occupation on Iraq even though it had avoided one in Afghanistan; how some officials postponed or impeded important early steps that could have averted major problems in Iraq's post-Saddam period; and how the Administration's errors in war-related communications undermined the nation's credibility and put U.S. war efforts at risk. Even close followers of reporting on the Iraq war will be surprised at the new information Feith provides—presented here with balance and rigorous attention to detail. Among other revelations, War and Decision demonstrates that the most far-reaching warning of danger in Iraq was produced not by State or by the CIA, but by the Pentagon. It reveals the actual story behind the allegations that the Pentagon wanted to "anoint" Ahmad Chalabi as ruler of Iraq, and what really happened when the Pentagon challenged the CIA's work on the Iraq–al Qaida relationship. It offers the first accurate account of Iraq postwar planning—a topic widely misreported to date. And it presents surprising new portraits of Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Richard Armitage, L. Paul Bremer, and others—revealing how differences among them shaped U.S. policy. With its blend of vivid narrative, frank analysis, and elegant writing, War and Decision is like no other book on the Iraq war. It will interest those who have been troubled by conflicting accounts of the planning of the war, frustrated by the lack of firsthand insight into the decision-making process, or skeptical of conventional wisdom about Operation Iraqi Freedom and the global war on terrorism—efforts the author continues to support.
Disputed Decisions Of World War Ii
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Author : Mark Thompson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-01-17
Disputed Decisions Of World War Ii written by Mark Thompson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-17 with History categories.
A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leaders--although outstanding in many ways--sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide. Operation Jubilee, a single-division raid on Dieppe, France, in August 1942, for example, illustrated the pitfalls of groupthink. In the Allied invasion of North Africa three months later, American and British leaders fell victim to the planning fallacy: having unrealistically rosy expectations of an easy victory. In Sicily in the summer of 1943, they violated the millennia-old principle of command unity--now re-endorsed and elaborated on by modern theorists. Had Allied strategists understood the game theory of bluffing, in January 1944 they might well not have landed two-plus divisions at Anzio in Italy.
Decisions For War 1914 1917
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Author : Richard F. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-12-13
Decisions For War 1914 1917 written by Richard F. Hamilton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-13 with History categories.
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Decisions For War 1914
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Author : F.H. Hinsley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Decisions For War 1914 written by F.H. Hinsley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with History categories.
Keith Wilson is Lecturer in International History at the University of Leeds.; This book is intended for undergraduate history courses: broad 20th century European history, First World War, military history, war studies, international and diplomatice history, school libraries.
Thucydides On Choice And Decision Making
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Author : Ilias Kouskouvelis
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2018-11-05
Thucydides On Choice And Decision Making written by Ilias Kouskouvelis and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with Political Science categories.
This book uncovers Thucydides’ decision making schemata and his thinking on how people decide, particularly when in power or war. Based on these ideas, the author interprets the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war and the Sicilian expedition, and shows that they were a result of decision making and, thus, not inevitable.
Choosing War
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Author : Joseph J. Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Choosing War written by Joseph J. Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Deception categories.
"The goal of this case study is to outline how the United States chose to go to war in Iraq, how its decision making process functioned, and what can be done to improve that process.
Lincoln And The Decision For War
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Author : Russell McClintock
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008-04-01
Lincoln And The Decision For War written by Russell McClintock and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-01 with History categories.
When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking and highly praised book, McClintock follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus. From small towns to big cities and from state capitals to Washington, D.C., McClintock highlights individuals both powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways ordinary citizens, party activists, state officials, and national leaders interacted to influence the Northern response to what was essentially a political crisis. He argues that although Northerners' reactions to Southern secession were understood and expressed through partisan newspapers and officials, the decision fell into the hands of an ever-smaller group of people until finally it was Lincoln alone who would choose whether the future of the American republic was to be determined through peace or by sword.
Fateful Choices
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Author : Ian Kershaw
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-04-04
Fateful Choices written by Ian Kershaw and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-04 with History categories.
In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. In Fateful Choices Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose not to surrender, and December 1941, when Hitler decided to destroy Europe’s Jews, showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history.
War From The Top
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Author : Alan F. Wilt
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1990-08-22
War From The Top written by Alan F. Wilt and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-08-22 with History categories.
"Wilt writes... well and offers many sound perceptions." -- Choice "... a stimulating book... a timely warning against overindulgence in hindsight in evaluating the great issues of the war... " -- Parameters "... a significant new study... a clearly written, excellent book... " -- Airpower Journal "... an impressive work of scholarship... " -- British Politics Group Newsletter "Wilt's comparative approach permits us fresh perspectives on both sides of the war. Moreover, Wilt has chosen to compare two of the major rival belligerents at the most stimulating and interesting level at which such comparison might be made, the level of the summit of decision making -- with the magnetic figures of Hitler and Churchill playing major roles in his narrative and analysis." -- Russell F. Weigley "This is a masterful treatment of a complex subject and a must read book for anyone writing about the Second World War." -- The Historian
Presidential Decisions For War
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Author : Gary R. Hess
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2009-03
Presidential Decisions For War written by Gary R. Hess and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03 with History categories.
and the elder Bush, George W. Bush's White House actively sought to change the international order through preemptive war and aggressive democracy building." --Book Jacket.