Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.

The Washington Post

Compelling and well-researched ... Fiasco pulls no punches.... News on Iraq usually comes with blaring headlines, but Ricks' work allows us to fit seemingly disparate events into an overall pattern.

Thomas E . Ricks is the senior Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has covered U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the bestselling author of Making the Corps and a novel, A Soldier's Duty.