Tell Me How This Ends General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq

by Robinson, Linda

• ISBN13: 9781586487669
• ISBN10: 1586487663
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-14
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Summary

On the ground in Iraq, with General Petraeus and his commanders, the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Masters of Chaos" reports on the endgame of a controversial war.

Author Biography

Linda Robinson is author in residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. She was a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report, and is the author of The New York Times bestseller Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces.

Table of Contents

Principal Cast of Characters	p. xi
Map of Baghdad	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
The Genesis of a Civil War	p. 1
A Failing War, and the Decision to Surge	p. 25
David Howell Petraeus	p. 47
The Petraeus Team Launches	p. 85
Fardh al-Qanoon, the Baghdad Security Plan	p. 119
The Political Puzzle	p. 141
Downsizing Expectations	p. 169
The Blue Spaders in the Inferno	p. 181
The Knights of Ameriya	p. 217
The Sons of Iraq	p. 251
Full-Court Press	p. 271
The September Reckoning	p. 293
The Drawdown Begins, and the Cease-Fire Spreads	p. 307
To the Brink Again	p. 327
Tell Me How This Ends	p. 345
Acknowledgments	p. 365
Notes	p. 369
Selected Bibliography	p. 389
Index	p. 393
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