This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials, including President Bush himself,
The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which Bush overruled much of the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and authorized the deployment of roughly 30,000 additional troops to the warzone in a bid to save Iraq from collapse in 2007.
The adoption of a new counterinsurgency strategy and surge of new troops into Iraq altered the American posture in the Middle East for a decade to come. In The Last Card we have access to the deliberations among the decision-makers on Bush's national security team as they embarked on that course. In their own words, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Editorial Reviews .
"The Last Card is an exhaustively researched account of how President George W. Bush made the decision to conduct the surge in Iraq. Readers will find this a gripping description of how the president made one of the toughest calls of his time in office."(General David Petraeus, (US Army, Ret.), Commander of the Surge in Iraq (2007-8), US Central Command (2008-10), and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan (2010-11))
"This book does not disappoint! It nicely illuminates the complexities and challenges of crisis decision-making―I don't know of another project quite like it." (James H. Lebovic, The George Washington University, author of Planning to Fail)
Product details |
- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Cornell University Press (September 15, 2019)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1501715186
- ISBN-13: 978-1501715181
- Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
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