Fiasco
Categories: History
Fiasco (2006) by military journalist Thomas E. Ricks is an account of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq from 2003 to 2005. Drawing on interviews with soldiers and officers and on internal documents, Ricks examines the planning for the war, the failure to prepare for the occupation and the rise of the insurgency. He argues that flawed assumptions and poor leadership in Washington and in the military led to a costly failure.