TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sayle,Timothy A.
AU  - Engel,Jeffrey A.
AU  - Brands,Hal
AU  - Inboden,William
TI  - The last card: inside George W. Bush's decision to surge in Iraq 
SN  - 9781501715181
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Ithaca [New York], London
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Counterinsurgency
KW  - Iraq
KW  - History
KW  - Military planning
KW  - United States
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2003-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; America's war in Iraq : 2003-2005 -- This strategy is not working : January-June 2006 -- Together forward? : June-August 2006 -- Silos and stovepipes : September-October 2006 -- Setting the stage : early November 2006 -- A sweeping internal review : mid-late November 2006 -- Choosing to surge : December 2006 -- What kind of surge? : late December 2006-January 2007 -- How "the surge" came to be / Stephen Hadley, Peter Feaver, and Meghan O'Sullivan -- Iraq, Vietnam, and the meaning of victory / Andrew Preston -- Decisions and politics / Robert Jervis -- Blood, treasure, and time : strategy-making for the surge / Richard Betts -- Strategy and "the surge" / Joshua Rovner -- Civil military relations and the Iraq surge / Kori Schake -- A long and winding road / Richard H. Immerman -- The President as policy entrepreneur / Colin Dueck
N2  - "An oral history of President George W. Bush's decision to surge troops to Iraq, accompanied by scholarly analysis by leading scholars of international security and presidential history"--
ER  -