::I second that.  This seems like a very straightforward summary of this book.  The only different impression I got from reading it was the book seemed to come down harder and more directly on Rumsfeld and Tommy Franks than does this summary.  But whoever flagged this as needing a neutrality check failed to give us a hint as to why.  I'll remove the tag. Mindful of 's suggestion the article could use a reference from a prominent source, I'll add a link to Lawrence D. Freedman's review in Foreign Affairs journal which seems to be typical of the reviews I've seen for the book.