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The One Percent Doctrine
by Ron Suskind
Relying on unique access to former and current government officials, this book will reveal for the first time how the U.S. government - from President Bush on down - is frantically improvising to fight a new kind of war. Where is the enemy? What have been the real victories and defeats since September 11? How are we actually fighting this war and how can it possibly be won? Little, in fact, has been revealed... (more)
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
by Larry Jay Diamond
“Chilling—and often scathing—detail . . . Should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the United States’ quick military victory has given way to an increasingly virulent insurgency.”— The New York Times In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a call from Condoleezza Rice, asking if he would spend several months in Baghdad as an adviser to the American occupation authorities.... (more)