removing Saddam Hussein by force
Edición de la obra Decisionmaking in Operation Iraqi Freedom
| Autor | Steven Metz |
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| Editorial | Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010 |
| Lugar | Carlisle, PA |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 67 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781584874263 |
| ISBN-10 | 1584874260 |
| OCLC | 569990253 |
| LCCN | 2010443917 |
| Serie | Operation Iraqi Freedom key decisions monograph series -- v. 1 · Operation Iraqi Freedom key decisions monograph series -- v. 1. |
| Número de Cutter | M596d |
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One of the defining characteristics of strategy making in the Bush administration was the treatment of any decision involving transnational terrorism as a crisis with a limited slate of participants and a minimal role for professional expertise except on operational and technical considerations. When the administration broke from its predecessors and chose to approach the Iraq issue as part of the war on terrorism rather than as simply an element of regional stability, it shifted to a crisis decision mode. This was unusual since the Iraq conflict did not meet the usual requirements for a crisis: a very high threat and limited decision time. This initial volume provides a review of decisions made by senior military and civilian leaders during the several years thus far of the war in Iraq, and focuses on the how and why certain decisions were made.--