Book description
In War and Decision, former Pentagon policy chief Douglas J. Feith puts readers in the room with President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and others as they considered how to prevent another 9/11. Drawing on thousands of previously undisclosed written sources, Feith offers the first…
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The author, Doug Feith, served as the Department of Defense’s Under Secretary for Policy and was the principal author of the rationale to go to war in Iraq. I served on the Joint Staff for Strategy and Policy, and worked extensively with Mr. Feith.
Why we went to war in Iraq was controversial, but Doug Feith does a marvelous job of connecting the dots, making the case why war with Iraq was essential in the War on Terror, and then developing the strategy to fight that war.
If anyone wants to know the background on why we went to war,…
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