Why read Clausewitz when Shock and Awe can make a clean sweep of things?
Andrew Bacevich: The Rumsfeld Doctrine, 8 June 2006
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor.
Atlantic, 603 pp., £25, March 2006,1 84354 352 4 Show More
by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor.
Atlantic, 603 pp., £25, March 2006,
“... an important contribution. A decade ago, Michael Gordon, a reporter with the New York Times, and Bernard Trainor, a retired US Marine Corps lieutenant general, collaborated on The Generals’ War, still perhaps the best narrative history of the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91. Cobra II, a worthy successor, is packaged as an account of the planning and ... ”
