Iraq uncensored : perspectives /

Iraq uncensored : perspectives / edited by James M. Ludes [for the] American Security Project ; foreword by John Kerry. - Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum, c2009. - xxiv, 162 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Speaker's corner . - Speaker's corner books .

Includes bibliographical references.

Informed decision : process before policy / A very bad idea from the start / Real faith in the public square / Too little, too late : societal transformation on a shoestring is no strategy / Iraq War planners ignored powerful historic lessons / Reaping an uncertain result : American media and the Iraq War / A responsibility to learn / Rediscovering the real lessons of Vietnam / How we leave matters / The lessons the world has learned / The new face of war / It takes a country to fight a war / Rebalancing our national power / America needs a new agency to help failed states / Debunking the conventional wisdom on Iraq / Beware of dismantling states / The business of defense does matter / The undisciplined Pentagon budget / Broken contract : the limits of the all-volunteer Army / One team, one fight / Civil-military relations after Iraq / And to the republic for which is stands / No more Iraqs / Iraq : lessons learned / Paul R. Pillar -- Robert Gallucci -- John Bryson Chane -- Daniel Christman -- Robert D. Hormats -- Steven Livingston -- John A. Nagel -- Bernard I. Finel -- Lee F. Gunn -- Thomas P.M. Barnett -- Arthur S. Obermayer -- Stephen A. Cheney -- Joseph J. Collins -- Morton H. Halperin -- Benjamin H. Friedman and Christopher Preble -- Shibley Telhami -- Bill Owens -- Gordon Adams -- Lawrence J. Korb -- Claudia Kennedy -- Frank G. Hoffman -- Gary Hart -- James N. Miller, Jr. -- James M. Ludes.

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Iraq War, 2003-
Iraq War, 2003---Influence.
Military policy.
National security--United States.

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