Original sentence: Fiasco deals with the history of the Iraq War, from the planning phase to combat operations to 2006, and argues that the war was badly planned and executed.Fiasco, The American Military Adventure In Iraq (2006) is a book by Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Thomas E.Ricks based the book in part on interviews with military personnel involved in the planning and execution of the war
Edited sentence: <P>The on-the-ground tales of torture and violence are terrifying, but even more terrifying is Ricks’ conclusion that the Bush White House wasn’t listening to generals who told them a war would need far more troops than the number Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ended up sending to Iraq.Fiasco deals with the history of the Iraq war, from the planning phase to combat operations to 2006.Fiasco, The American Military Adventure In Iraq (2006) is a bestselling book by Thomas E.Ricks is a lifelong Pentagon and war correspondant who currently works for the Washington Post, and much of the book is based on interviews with military personnel involved in the planning and execution of the Iraq War.Ricks’s narrative is based on hundreds of interviews and more than 37,000 pages of documents, and many of the book’s most scorching assessments of the White House and Pentagon’s conduct of the war come from members of the uniformed military and official military reports.The New York Times review states:.The first third of the book reviews the political beginnings of the War.The interviews with top generals and Pentagon officials are stunning, and reveal a war that, horrifyingly, had literally no end-goal, let alone a strategy for achieving that goal.The rest of the book is "groundbreaking" according to the Harvard Crimson:.To this day, the war has no end-goal, and therefore can have no “end” in sight