Bush's wars
By: Terry H. Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780199747528
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Causes; Afghan War, 2001-; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Influence; Foreign relations
Description: Provides historical surveys of Iraq and Afghanistan, reviews U.S. policies regarding those nations from 1970 to 2000, discusses events that led President George W. Bush to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and describes the course of those wars.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: East : the improbable country and the graveyard of empires; title: West : the United States, Saddam, and Al Qaeda, 1970s-2000; title: Bush, Bin Laden, and the pinnacle of world sympathy; title: Rush to war; title: Operation Iraqi Freedom; title: Bush's war.